The affected students of Phuoc Binh primary school in District 12 had a meal of cuttlefish, cabbage soup, sponge cake, and milk at noon and in the afternoon.

Between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. Monday, around 400 were hospitalized for stomach-ache and vomiting. Many of them were admitted to the District 9 Hospital and other hospitals in the city.

Inspectors from the HCMC’s Health Department rushed to the scene to collect the food samples for analysis, but are not yet to certain of the cause.

Reported by Thanh Tung