As many as 22 people, including 12 children and four women, fainted after eating shawarma from a local shop in Pakistan’s Rahim Yar Khan district, a news report has revealed.

According to a report in the Dawn newspaper, some people bought shawarmas from a shop in Rahim Yar Khan and as soon as they ate it, they started vomiting and fainted.

They were shifted to the Sheikh Zayed Medical College Hospital (SZMCH), the report said. SZMCH Medical Superintendent Dr Ghulam Rabbani told the newspaper that 22 patients were brought to the emergency ward with food poisoning.

He said the patients were now stable and would be discharged soon adding that hospital staff was investigating how the patients got food poisoning.

source: Alarabiya