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Number of hospitalized after wedding poisoning scandal rises to 40

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PM Kvirikashvili visiting some of the poison victims at Marneuli hospital on Tuesday. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–About 40 people – 22 of them children – are still in hospital after being poisoned during a wedding in Georgia.

Nearly 200 people were poisoned on Monday at a wedding in Sadakhlo, a village in the south of Georgia near the border with Armenia.

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200 wedding guests poisoned – 21 still hospitalized

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21 wedding guests remain hospitalized after the mass food poisoning. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Almost 200 people were taken ill with food poisoning at a wedding in the south of Georgia on Monday, 28 of them children.

The mass poisoning took place in the village Sadakhlo, near Marneuli.

The affected wedding guests mostly complained about feeling sick and disoriented.

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