SHIKAPUR: A woman and children among 40 people were hospitalised after eating contaminated rice here on Sunday.
Police said that health condition of 40 persons, including a woman and several children, deteriorated after they ate contaminated rice, purchased from a local food point in Lakhi Ghulam Shah area of Shikarpur.
The affectees were shifted to the Civil Hospital and Taluka Hospital Shikarpur. An emergency was declared in both the hospitals.
The police arrested the rice seller and after registering a case against him started an investigation.
