(Zaman Al Wasl)- A mass food poisoning at a camp for displaced people near the northern city of Idlib has sickened tens of people, medics told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday.
Dr. Jamal Abu Mahmoud said 154 people, including 80 children, took ill in the village of al-Ghadfa in the southern countryside after an Iftar meal, which Muslims break their dawn-to-dusk fasting during the holy month of Ramadan.
The food provided by a non-governmental organization.
Mahmoud said all sickened people were discharged from the hospital as no critical conditions reported.
Activists say the NGO might be the Turkish IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation that distributes iftar to 50,000 Syrians every day in the holy month of Ramadan.
Selim Tosun, IHH’s media advisor in Syria, Told Anadolu Agency the meals are arranged in rural areas and refugee camps in Idlib, Aleppo, Hama, and Latakia.
Idlib has been a haven for tens of thousands of rebels and civilians who were forced to abandon their homes in other parts of western Syria that the regime and its foreign military allies have recaptured from rebels.
Zaman Al Wasl
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