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Mass burial in playing field for Indian kids poisoned by school lunch

 

Villagers in front of a school stand next to the grave of a child who died after consuming contaminated meals given to children at a school on Tuesday, July 16, 2013, at Chapra district in the eastern Indian state of Bihar on Thursday, July 18, 2013. A children's playing field outside an Indian primary school was turned into a mass graveyard on Thursday as victims of a poisoned lunch scandal that killed 23 youngsters were laid to rest. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

GANDAMAN, India (AFP) - A children's playing field outside an Indian primary school was turned into a mass graveyard on Thursday as victims of a poisoned lunch scandal that killed 23 youngsters were laid to rest.

As grieving parents spoke of how they relied on the school to give their children their main daily meal, officials in impoverished Bihar state tried to stem a wave of panic among other pupils who were dumping their free lunches. 

The police meanwhile stepped up their investigation, exploring the possibility that the food given to the youngsters was poisoned deliberately, as the school's headmistress remained on the run. 

The burials were held on an area of open ground just outside the school where pupils play during their breaks, according to an AFP correspondent at the scene. - sumber