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Mosul Displaced: Hundreds Suffer from Food Poisoning in Camp

Mosul Displaced: Hundreds Suffer from Food Poisoning in Camp
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Iraqi officials said hundreds of displaced fell ill from food poisoning in a refugee camp east of the Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday evening, and were rushed to nearby hospitals.

Mosul Displaced: Hundreds Suffer from Food Poisoning in Camp

People started vomiting and some fainted after eating an Iftar meal, breaking the Muslim Ramadan fast, said lawmaker Zahed Khatoun, a member of the Iraqi parliament's committee for displaced people.

The camp in al-Khazer on the road linking Mosul and Erbil houses people displaced by an offensive to dislodge the Wahhabi Daesh [Arabic acronym for "ISIS" / "ISIL"] terrorist group from Mosul.

The Kurdish news agency Rudaw, citing Erbil health department officials, said at least one child had died and more than 800 people were affected.

It added that Erbil's mayor said the owner of the restaurant that made the food had been arrested.

A military operation to retake Daesh's last three remaining enclaves outside Mosul's Old City began last month - the latest push in a major operation that began in October.

Aid groups had repeatedly expressed their concerns over the safety of hundreds of thousands of civilians who had been forced to flee and are at risk of being caught in the crossfire.

According to the United Nations, almost 10,000 people fled from Mosul's northwest and the Old City every day during the last week of May.

More than 750,000 people had been displaced from the city since October.

Source: News agencies, Edited by website team

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