A food poisoning outbreak at a fast food restaurant has killed at least 41 people and left hundreds needing hospital treatment in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing.
The official Xinhua news agency said the 41 had died after eating traditional breakfast snacks including sesame cakes and fried dough sticks at a branch of a soy milk chain.
Doctors quoted by the agency said the death toll was expected to rise.
More than 400 people, many construction workers and middle school students, were rushed to hospitals after eating at the restaurant in the city's Jiangning district, Xinhua said.
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The restaurant has been shut down and at least ten hospitals around Nanjing are treating the victims.
AFP