India .. 100 students poisoned a meal containing a dead snake
The incident took place last week at a government school in Makama, Bihar, one of the poorest states in India.
100 pupils poisoning
The alert was announced after the appearance of pathological symptoms in a hundred out of 500 children who eaten in the school canteen.
The National Committee for Human Rights said on Thursday that “the cook apparently presented the students according to a deadly snake,” the police and local authorities were asked to conduct an investigation.
Student health
The committee considered that this incident “is that if it is confirmed a serious violation of the human rights of students.”
The health of the students caused great concern in the village, as the residents cut off the road to protest.
Millions of students in Indian public schools get free meals provided by the federal government.
In 2013, 23 students in a school in Bihar also died after taking them according to insecticides.
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