Fifty-eight students in Bangkok's Chatuchak district were rushed to hospitals after they fell ill with severe diarrhoea and vomiting after eating lunch on Friday.
According to a Thai Rath report, the group of third and sixth graders from Prachaniwet school appeared to suffer from food poisoning after eating spicy minced pork salad, or larb moo (ลาบหมู), at lunch time.
Some of the students appeared very weak and doctors gave them saline injections, the report said.
Thai-style spicy minced pork salad (Photo by Taweechai Tawatpakorn)