Dozens of people treated for food poisoning

A staff at the Sarlahi district hospital at Malangawa told Nepalnews over phone that forty-seven people, most of them children, were discharged from the hospital this morning after undergoing treatment at the hospital overnight.

He said their conditions had improved and they returned to their village on a tractor.

Dozens of others, who fell sick, visited bordering town of India for treatment, according to reports.

Nearly 150 people had fallen sick after consuming contaminated food prepared on the occasion of 'Naag Panchami'--a Hindu festival--on Sunday.