{"id":6454,"date":"2018-12-15T11:13:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T07:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=6454"},"modified":"2018-12-15T11:13:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T07:13:17","slug":"eleven-die-and-dozens-ill-after-eating-rice-at-indian-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/12\/15\/eleven-die-and-dozens-ill-after-eating-rice-at-indian-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleven die and dozens ill after eating rice at Indian temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\"><strong>Eleven people have died and dozens more have fallen ill after eating rice at a temple in India, police say.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About 70 people have been admitted to hospital after eating the food following a ceremony in the southern state of Karnataka.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesman told the BBC that 11 patients are in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Two people have reportedly been arrested following the incident, and one health official told local media that the food may have been poisoned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were offered tomato rice [which] was smelling,&#8221; one person who attended the ceremony told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All those who threw it away are fine,&#8221; they added. &#8220;Those who ate [it] started vomiting and complained of stomach pain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened at the Maramma temple in the Chamarajanagar district on Friday, where a special event was taking place.<\/p>\n<p>The rice was reportedly served as a religious offering to the congregation as they left the temple.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today was the consecration ceremony here,&#8221; another witness said, before adding that many people had travelled from neighbouring villages to attend the event.<\/p>\n<p>Some have expressed shock at the news on social media, including former Indian Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Families who have lost their lives in the disaster should have the strength and courage to endure the pain,&#8221; he wrote in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven people have died and dozens more have fallen ill after eating rice at a temple in India, police say. About 70 people have been admitted to hospital after eating the food following a ceremony in the southern state of Karnataka. A police spokesman told the BBC that 11 patients are in a critical condition. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6460,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454\/revisions\/6460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}