Bhubaneswar, May 24 -- Four persons died and 28 others fell ill in a span of four days in Odisha's Sundargarh district, after they ate at a funeral feast on Thursday. Officials suspect a case of food poisoning.

Sundargarh officials said people from two villages in Sundargarh and neighbouring Jharsuguda districts had attended a community feast linked to a ritual at Nuadihi village under Hemgiri block of Sundargarh district on Thursday. Soon after consuming the food, several attendees allegedly developed symptoms such as vomiting, stomach pain and diarrhoea.

Sundargarh chief district medical officer Suresh Chandra Mohanty said around 28 people fell sick from the suspected food poisoning. Of them, six were referred to a hospital in Sundarg...