Overview

• More than 30 students at Mahatma Jyothibha Phule Residential School reported stomach pain, nausea and vomiting early Thursday after eating Bonalu chicken curry.
• Six pupils under the age of 12 were transferred to the Mother and Child Health Centre where they remain in critical condition.
• School staff treated older students on-site and alerted parents, who rushed to the health centre to support their children.
• This incident comes three days after a similar food poisoning outbreak at a social welfare school in Mudigonda, highlighting repeated lapses in institutional meal safety.
• Telangana’s Food and Drug Administration and local police have launched investigations to identify failures in food handling and enforce stricter hygiene measures.