44 students hospitalised after eating noon meal containing lizard at Kavundampalayam Corporation Middle School

Forty-four students of the Coimbatore Corporation Middle School, Kavundampalayam were hospitalised connected Tuesday (March 10, 2026) aft consuming their noon meal, successful which a dormant lizard was found. The students developed symptoms of nausea.

Coimbatore Corporation and section wellness authorities instantly arranged ambulances to admit the affected children to Coimbatore Medical College Hospital. Parents who had gathered adjacent the schoolhouse were informed astir the hospitalisation.