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Over 60 students were hospitalized in northern Lebanon's port city of Tripoli on Thursday, after drinking contaminated tap water.
The state-run National News Agency (NNA) said the students, all below 12 years of age, were taken to Dar al-Shifa hospital after suffering from pain in the abdomen, vomiting, diarrhea and breathing difficulty.
The children are students at a state school in the area of Abi Samra, the agency said, without giving the name of the institution. But Voice of Lebanon radio identified it as Hayy al-Nozha school.
A doctor at the hospital, Jalal Abbous, told the NNA that the kids "will be monitored for 24 hours. The water is also being tested to know the source of the contamination."
"The results of medical and laboratory tests will be revealed on Friday," said the doctor.
In May last year, several students and a teacher in southern Lebanon's Shebaa public school suffered from food poisoning after having lunch during a school trip.
