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Over 80 kids fall ill after consuming midday meal in Junagadh.

Over 80 children of a primary school in Una taluka of Junagadh District suffered from food poisoning, after eating food served to them under midday meal scheme today, district officials said.

The incident took place in the primary school of Dudhada Village in Una Taluka where students started vomiting and complained of stomach ache after consuming mid-day meal, they said.

"Around 85 student of the Dhudhada primary school has been admitted to the Una government hospital after they suffered food poisoning," Junagadh collector AM Parmar told PTI.

"The food poisoning seems to have been caused due to food given to them under the midday meal scheme," he added.

Parmar said that students are under observation and are being treated at the Una hospital.

Police said that a case has been registered and further investigation in the matter was on.

Una Taluka Junagadh District News Samachar Gujarat India

Una receives 76 mm rainfall in 24 hrs.

Heavy to very heavy rains poured in Una taluka of Junagadh district on Sunday afternoon and resumed early on Monday morning. Though the city and surrounding areas have received a good spell this season, the forest areas did not get any rainfall.

According to sources, it started raining heavily at 4 pm on Sunday and lasted for two hours, within which time Met department officials recorded 31 mm of rainfall. "There was waterlogging throughout the town, especially in Madhavbaug and Police Lines which saw knee-deep water. Basement shops in most complexes had water gushing in," a source said.

On Monday morning too it rained from 7 am to 8 am with 35 mm of rainfall being recorded. The area has had up to 1,076 mm this season.

However, rainfall was in a 5 km radius around the town and forest areas of the taluka did not see rain. Maldharis of the area have not been happy with this year's rain as despite good rains in Saurashtra, most wells and water bodies remained dry in the jungles.

Apart from sporadic rains in Rajula and Visavadar talukas, neither Junagadh district nor any other district of Rajkot received rain.