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Students poisoned after drinking milk labelled PKS

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Jakarta Post - June 12, 2009

Bandung – More than 200 students from 10 elementary schools in Bandung Barag regency, West Java, were poisoned Thursday after consuming free milk packaged with a plastic logo of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS).

Sindangkerta Police chief Adj. Comr. Adi Surjanto said his office was investigating two drivers and their assistants who transported the milk Thursday morning after 80 students were rushed to Sindangkerta and Cililin public health centers (Puskesmas) for poisoning.

"We received reports and immediately found out that the vehicles used to carry the milk were still in the vicinity of the crime scene," he said. The police would not be name any suspects yet, he said.

Adi said police had sent samples of the milk to the Bandung Drug and Food Monitoring Agency to determine whether any hazardous content in the milk may have led to the poisoning.

Only three poisoned students from SD Nangela and Madrasah Ibtidaiyah in Sindangkerta were still being treated by Thursday afternoon.

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