RAHIM YAR KHAN: Twenty-two people fainted after eating shawarma from a local shop here on Monday evening.

Some people had bought shawarmas from a shop on canal road adjacent to Mepco Complex. As soon as the customers ate the food, they started vomiting and fainted. They were shifted to the Sheikh Zayed Medical College Hospital (SZMCH).

SZMCH Medical Superintendent Dr Ghulam Rabbani told Dawn that 22 patients, including 12 children and four women, were brought to the emergency ward with food poisoning.

He said the patients were now stable and would be discharged soon. He further said that hospital staff was investigating how the patients got food poisoning.

City A Division police registered a case against the shawarma seller and arrested some of his relatives in a bid to make him surrender.

Published in Dawn, April 4th, 2017