Seventeen people from Bethlehem Veng and Bethlehem Vengthlang localities here, who were taken ill last night were brought to the emergency department of the Aizawl Civil Hospital and were discharged after treatment for food poisoning.
Five people, including three of a family and a mother and her daughter were admitted to the Presbyterian Hospital at Durtlang near Aizawl, the sources said.
The affected said that they purchased the fermented soya bean from a woman in Bethlehem Veng locality and police suspected that the woman fermented the soya bean treated with insecticide for seeds.