SUKKUR, April 7: The railway police on Monday released all the five vendors of the Rohri Railway Station who were arrested on the charge of selling poisonous food items to passengers of a train on Saturday.

This was informed by the SP, railway, Sukkur, Syed Mohammad Hasnain Naqvi, while talking to Dawn on telephone on Monday evening.

The SP said the vendors were released after the preliminary inquiry revealed that they had not supplied the poisonous food to the passengers of the Awam Express.

He said the vendors were arrested when the Lahore railway police informed the Sukkur railway police that 15 passengers of the Awam Express who had consumed food bought from vendors at the Rohri Rail-way Station had fallen unconscious.

The passengers who were in critical condition were admitted to the Meo Hospital in Lahore.

The SP said it was disclosed in the inquiry that the poisonous food items were not supplied to passengers at the Rohri Railway Station but at the Khanewal Railway Station.

He clarified that no luggage was looted at the Rohri Railway Station and the police had not received any complaint in this regard.