100 guests in hospital after wedding banquet
Published Date:
14 October 2008
MORE than 100 wedding banquet guests were rushed to hospital in China when powdered rust remover was added to the cooking pot instead of salt, after they all decided that the food needed more flavour.
The bride's father invited 170 friends and relatives to the wedding banquet at a village in northern Hebei province on Friday, the night before the nuptials.
"All food was stewed in a big pot, but after dinner started all of them felt the taste was too bland," according to the Beijing News.
One of the guests added what he or she thought was salt, several times. An hour later, the guests were being rushed to hospital.
One doctor was quoted as saying: "When I arrived at the hospital, the observation room was packed with people vomiting, with stomach pains and with diarrhoea."
Fortunately, the symptoms were short-lived and all the victims went home the next day.
The full article contains 159 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.
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Last Updated:
13 October 2008 10:27 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
