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Food poisoning was reported in the Dehiattakandiya Army training camp yesterday and 120 soldiers rushed to the Polonnaruwa and Dehiattakandiya hospitals for treatment were declared out of danger, Army spokesman Brig Udaya Nanayakkara said.
The soldiers had eaten rice, fish and coconut sambol for their breakfast and almost immediately after their meal a number of them had started vomiting and purging. Others had fainted and had to be rushed to the two hospitals army sources said.
Fish, vegetables and rice are supplied to the camp by a contractor but the food was cooked in the camp kitchen. The kitchen staff was being questioned, police sources said.
Some of the bad cases were flown by helicopter to the Polonnaruwa hospital and teams of doctors were rushed there but none are in danger, sources said.
The Dehiattakandiya camp is a army training facility and there were 250 soldiers undergoing training at the camp and almost half of them had been affected by food poisoning. The army and police and conducting a joint investigation into the case, sources said.
