By Ephraim Aguilar
Southern Luzon Bureau
First Posted 12:46:00 10/15/2008
INQUIRER.net
LEGAZPI CITY -- At least 31 residents of a village in Masbate were rushed to a district hospital there due to food poisoning after eating fish bought from the public market, a police official said Wednesday.
Chief Inspector Salvador Retuermo, Cataingan chief of police, said the victims, who are residents of Barangay (village) Poblacion in Cataingan town, complained of severe stomach ache and vomiting.
The victims ate fish noontime Tuesday and were rushed to the hospital late afternoon of the same day, Retuermo said.
Retuermo said there were more than 31 people who ate fish from the same source but not all showed symptoms of poisoning.
He quoted the municipal doctor as saying that the assorted fish (tangigue, rumpe and malasugi), which vendors said came from Tagapul-an, Samar, were possibly contaminated with formalin.
The victims are under observation in the hospital while police are investigating.
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