147 Bogor residents suffer from food poisoning

Sat, 04/18/2009 2:20 PM  |  City

BOGOR: Some 147 residents in a kampung in Bogor, West Java, suffered from food poisoning after eating meals served at a wedding party.

The residents of Kampung Cisarua Dalam, Cisarua, received a meal box containing rice, chicken, noodles and cucumber pickles for breakfast, after attending the wedding ceremony of Hasan, 25, and Siti Nurhasanah, 19, on Thursday.

An hour after the wedding party started, dozens of guests said they had severe headaches, others vomited and went unconscious one by one. Some 57 victims were taken to Dr M. Goenawan Partowidigdo Hospital in Cisarua while 90 others were reportedly treated at the wedding. - JP

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