Bhubaneswar, March 5 -- As many as 25 students of a school were taken ill after eating mid-day meal allegedly contaminated with a dead lizard on Monday. The incidence was reported from the Urdu UGME school at Shankarpur in Bhadrak.

As per reports, the students were served mid-day-meal on Monday like every other day. However, after eating the meal, some students allegedly found a dead lizard in it.

Soon, the students who had already eaten the lizard-contaminated meal were taken ill. They complained of vomiting and nausea.

The students were immediately taken to Bhadrak hospital by 108 ambulance where the doctors treated them.

"Not only the students were served the meal late, but it was infested with lizard too. I called the CDMO who sen...