At least 24 children complained of vomiting and stomach ache after drinking water from a hand pump in the government middle school Biraul in Darbhanga district.
Besides the children, a teacher and the cook of midday meal in the same school also complained of vomiting and stomach ache, In-charge of midday meal Sardul Hassan said.
He said all of them were taken to Biraul primary health centre.
Hassan said the hand pump has been sealed for probe.
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Sub Divisional Officer Manoranjan Kumar said the ailing children were taken to Jehanabad sadar hospital where all of them have been reported out of danger.
He said the hand pump has been sealed and its water send for test.
In Samastipur, five sulphas tablets were found from the hand pump installed in a government school premises in Pagra village in Dalsinsarai block.
Sub Divisional Officer of Samastipur Varun Kumar Mishra said that on the complaint of school principal he reached the school and on opening the hand pump, five sulphas tablets were found inside it.
On hearing the news, Sub Divisional Officer reached the school and after taking water sample sealed the hand pump.
After the tragic death of 23 children at a Chhapra school after eating midday meal, there have been spate of complaints of children falling sick after drinking water from hand pumps in their school across the state.
More than 55 children had suffered ailment at Sitamarhi yesterday.
Expressing grave concerns over the incidents, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has asked the administration and locals "to keep an eye over elements indulging in such dastardly act of mixing poison in hand pump.