Village buries its children
(China Daily/Agencies)
Updated: 2005-03-11 01:54

A grieving mother beside the body of her daughter in their shanty in the town of Mabini in Bohol Province in the Philippines yesterday. About 30 elementary school children died and dozens were hospitalized on Wednesday after eating fried cassava sweets. [Reuters]

Parents were hysterical as they cried for their deceased children.

"I love you so much my dear one, my dear one," cried Lorenza Nasas as the coffin of her son, Sherwin, 7, was brought into the chapel.

Recovering slowly

At the municipal hospital in nearby Talibon, meanwhile, 48 children from San Jose were slowly recovering. They were isolated in a wing of the packed hospital, with nurses and doctors closely observing them.

"They remain agitated and weak but the vomiting and diarrhoea appear to have stopped," hospital administrator Harold Gallego said.

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