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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Egypt students protest over mass poisoning case

Cairo (News and Us)-hundreds of students from the Islamic University in Egypt on Monday protested and demanded an investigation and punishment for those who should be responsible for the food poisoning case happened en masse on their campuses this month.

About 90 students from Al-Azhar University in Cairo was hospitalized on Monday after they ate in the cafeteria on campus, according to Egypt's Ministry of health had previously said about 450 college students were treated for food poisoning on campus.


The students said the incident Monday, a sign that college officials of Al-Azhar does not pay attention to the College and the thousand-year-old mosque that has attracted students from the Sunnis around the world.


Initial investigation conducted by units of the poison from the Hospital of Ain Shams in Cairo said that the food eaten victims that had been polluted.


"You guys are tight-lipped over this issue, why clamming?" exclaimed student on Monday.


Facing the street in front of their campus in Cairo's Nasr City borders.


Ibrahim El-Hodhod, Vice-President of education and students at Al-Azhar said, the Committee of inquiry has been constituted to prosecute this incident report, Egypt, MENA news agency.


El Hodhod looking student who was hospitalized on Monday, MENA.


An emergency meeting of the management of the University was held Tuesday to deal with the problem.


The Prime Minister of Egypt, Hisham Candlestick also looking students in the hospital Monday and asked the Interior Minister to urgently investigate the mass poisoning, according to a statement broadcast from his Office on Monday night, according to Reuters.


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