Dutch school group returning from Czech holiday hospitalized with food poisoning

Seventeen Dutch students were hospitalised in Germany having been poisoned by food they were served during a class trip to the Czech Republic, a police official from the German town of Hof has said. The Dutch school-group were returning home after a trip to the Krkonoše Mountains in the north of the Czech Republic when 17 members of the group fell so ill they had to be hospitalized in a German town on the way. According to local police, the students may have been poisoned by a meal they ate in the Czech town of Mšeno on Friday evening before setting off. Police refused to divulge the age of the students affected, nor the name of the restaurant in question. All of those hospitalized have now been discharged.