Zanzibar, March 10: Eight children and an adult died after eating sea turtle meat on Pemba Island in the Zanzibar archipelago and 78 other people were hospitalized, authorities said Saturday. Sea turtle meat is considered a delicacy by Zanzibar's people even though it periodically results in deaths from chelonitoxism, a type of food poisoning. Miss Czech Republic Krystyna Pyszkova Crowned Miss World 2024, View Pics of 71st Miss World Winner.

The adult who died late Friday was the mother of one of the children who succumbed earlier, said the Mkoani District medical officer, Dr Haji Bakari. He said the turtle meat was consumed Tuesday. Bakari told The Associated Press that laboratory tests had confirmed all the victims had eaten sea turtle meat. China: Flight Gets Delayed for Over Four Hours After Passenger Threw Coins Into Aircraft's Engine for 'Good Luck'.

Authorities in Zanzibar, which is a semi-autonomous region of the East African nation of Tanzania, sent a disaster management team led by Hamza Hassan Juma, who urged people to avoid consuming sea turtles. In November 2021, seven people, including a three-year-old, died on Pemba after eating turtle meat while three others were hospitalised.

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