YEREVAN, October 15. /ARKA/. Nineteen schoolchildren have been hospitalized from a secondary school in the town of Artashat in Ararat province with symptoms of food poisoning. A press officer for the Investigative Committee of Armenia Naira Harutyunyan said the children were in all likelihood poisoned after eating food they bought from the school cafeteria.

She said a criminal case has been instituted on the grounds of Part 2 of Article 279 (production or sale of goods, performance of work or  provision of services that do not meet safety requirements) of the Criminal Code of Armenia. -0-