Shillong, March 18 -- The Meghalaya Government has deputed two officials to visit Karnataka and submit a detailed report into the death of a 13-year-old student from the North-Eastern State following suspected food poisoning, an official said on Monday.

Twenty-nine other students are hospitalised and seven students remain in critical condition, after a suspected food poisoning incident at an alleged unauthorised hostel at T. Kagepura village in Karnataka's Mandya district.

The students experienced severe vomiting, diarrhoea and dehydration. The deceased has been identified as Khrehlang Khongtani, a Class VI student from Lyndem village, Pynursla Civil Sub-Division in Meghalaya's East Khasi Hills district. Khongtani died on Sunday at the ...