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Hundreds of people are being treated by health workers after an outbreak of suspected food poisoning in a camp for displaced people in Iraq.
Al-Dahlaki said the compromised meal served for iftar, which marks the breaking of fast during Islam's holy month of Ramadan, included meat, rice, yogurt, a bean sauce and water.
The police have since arrested the owner of the restaurant and a member of the organization that helped carry out the dinner.
Health ministry spokesman Seif al-Badr had told AFP that there were 752 cases of food poisoning and two deaths, a woman and child, at the Hasansham camp.
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Iraqi forces have also been trying to take control of Shifa hospital in the neighborhood for a few weeks, but have not yet reached it.
Amira Abdulhaliq, an official at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said it remains unclear at which point in preparing, packaging, transporting or distributing the meals, the food became contaminated.
USA -backed Iraqi forces have been battling the extremists in Mosul, the country's second largest city, since October.
About 800,000 people, more than a third of the prewar population of Mosul, have already fled the city, seeking refuge with friends and relatives or in camps.
UNHCR Spokesman, Andrej Mahecic, said, "We are extremely concerned with this event in the camp which has resulted in at least one casualty as I said, with hundreds of other people falling ill".
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