Hajs suffer food poisoning

Hajs suffer food poisoning

BANDUNG, West Java: As many as 194 hajs (people who had
performed haj pilgrimage) from the West Java regency of Garut
were reportedly poisoned after they consumed vegetable juice one
hour after the airplane, which was transporting them from King
Abdul Aziz airport in Jedda, Saudi Arabia, to Jakarta, had taken
off.

Hendy Budiman, an official at Garut health office, said here
on Thursday that they suffered from stomach ache and other
symptoms, such as queasiness, vomiting, headaches, and diarrhea.

"The symptoms occurred for three hours, and all of the plane's
passengers were in a panic until two hours before the plane
landed at Soekarno-Hatta Airport in Jakarta," he said. -- Antara