300 workers fall sick in B'desh due to food poisoning

DHAKA: At least 300 workers of a foreign garment factory at Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ) fell sick due to food poisoning.
 
The workers started feeling stomachache after having the lunch on Friday and then vomited while many of them fell unconscious, the Daily Star and other newspapers said quoting police and factory sources.
 
The caterer who supplied the food went into hiding, while police sent the specimen of the food for chemical examination.
 
The sick workers were being treated at different nearby facilities where the physicians confirmed that the food they had taken was contaminated, the reports said.