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Health officials in India are investigating reports that hundreds of children were served food that had contained a dead snake at a school last week.

More 100 children who consumed the contaminated lunch meals fell ill in the town of Mokama, CNN affiliate CNN News 18 reported. At least two dozen students were hospitalized on April 24.

A school cook dished out the meals after they had removed the snake remains, according to the country’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), citing local media.

“Reportedly, the cook served the food to the children after removing a dead snake from it,” the commission said in a statement.

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