MUMBAI, Dec 26: Nearly 170 school children were hospitalised on Tuesday with suspected food poisoning after eating peppermint candies offered by a schoolmate celebrating his birthday in western India, police said. Teachers panicked when the students started vomiting and rushed them to hospital in Mekar, a town 550 kilometres north of Mumbai, the capital of western Maharashtra state, Rafique Sheikh, a police inspector, told The Associated Press.—AP
