Report: 130 Iraqi soldiers poisoned at meal

Above: Iraqi security forces get briefed before a morning foot patrol in Mosul on April 2. The Iraqi VOI wire service reports that a police source told VOI that "the police was tipped that unidentified gunmen had recently purchased large amounts of toxic insecticides." In October, 2006, hundreds of Iraqi soldiers in southern Iraq were poisoned by bad food provided through an Australian contractor.

Up to 130 Iraqi soldiers were taken ill after they ate poisoned food at a military base in northern Iraq Friday, provincial police said.

The soldiers were poisoned in the morning after they took their meal in Hamam al-Alil training centre, some 30 km south of Mosul, said a police officer on condition of anonymity.

The officer said that hospitals in Mosul City received more than 70 soldiers for treatment and that ambulances were bringing more soldiers who were taken ill after eating the poisoned food.

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