20 children dead in India the school food: officials

Patna: Twenty children have been killed and an elementary school in eastern India are sick after eating free food, a state government minister said Wednesday.

"It's sad, but feels that 20 children poisoned his lunch, after eating dead is true," Bihar State Education Minister PK Shahi, told AFP. Death toll rose to eight Tuesday and some 30 more children were sick in the hospital in Patna, the capital of the state, the minister said.

In the Tuesday afternoon incident investigation is under way in
Masrakh village in Saran district of Bihar state school.

Several hundred people protested against the state government
Event. School children cooked lentils and rice fell ill after eating their lunch began, officials said.


"Hundreds of angry men late Tuesday after a protest in Saran
Night, government officials responsible for this tragic incident and demanded strict action against "the wealth of the district government official said.

Free meals offered to students in public schools are poor
Part of the government's welfare measures in many of India's 29 states.