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Karachi food poisoning: Police arrest two employees of restaurant under probe
December 19, 2018
KARACHI, Dec 19 (INP): Two employees of a restaurant where two children dined and died from a suspected case of food poisoning were arrested on Wednesday, police said.
The siblings, 18-month-old Ahmed and Muhammad, 5, died of alleged food poisoning on November 11, after dining out with their mother at a local eatery. The incident triggered a police investigation into the case, and resulted in the sealing of the restaurant in question.
According to police, a case against the two employees has been registered under “reason to murder” and “destroying evidence”.
[timed-content-server show="12/20/2018 01:00 Asia/Karachi"]The arrested employees were identified as Amir Akhtar and Irfan Aleem. Medical reports of the children obtained by the police earlier this month revealed that the ill-fated children had consumed substandard food which resulted in food poisoning, eventually causing their death the next day, sources said. The sources said the final cause of the minors’ death would be determined in light of the microbiology report, which is yet to be released. A panel of doctors would be constituted to discuss the findings of the report, they added. Nearly 60 food samples had been sent to the laboratories for chemical analysis following the children’s death. During a raid, the Sindh Food Authority had recovered expired meat from the eatery in question, located in the upscale Zamzama neighbourhood of Karachi. Sindh Food Authority also revealed that the restaurant in question had been served an improvement notice two months prior to the incident. INP/LK[/timed-content-server]Related Articles
