• The food was part of a community feeding programme in the northeastern Karamoja region, a semi-arid area where the UN has long provided food aid.
• Samples of the food and the patients' urine and blood had been sent to a government laboratory for analysis.
Uganda is investigating a supply of food from the World Food Programme after three people died and 262 others got sick, policSamples of the food and the patients' urine and blood had been sent to a government laboratory for analysis.e said.
People suffered diarrhoea, nose bleeds and other health problems after eating food provided by the United Nations food agency, police said in a statement late on Monday.
The food was part of a community feeding programme in the northeastern Karamoja region, a semi-arid area where the UN has long provided food aid for people facing poor harvests.
Police are "actively investigating the death of three people ... from eating adulterated or poisonous food supplied by the World Food Programme," the statement said.
REFUGEE HAVEN
Uganda hosts a large population of refugees, mostly from South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, where conflict and widespread insecurity has uprooted hundreds of thousands of people.
Samples of the food and the patients' urine and blood had been sent to a government laboratory for analysis.
The food agency said on Saturday it had suspended distribution of Super Cereal - a fortified blended food - at all its operations in.
In a statement on Tuesday, WFP said some 262 people had reported falling sick after eating the cereal, with some exhibiting "mental confusion, vomiting, headache, high fever and abdominal pain."
The organisation also said it was aware of "reports of three deaths" that had occurred on March 16 and that extra samples of the cereal had been sent to Kenya and South Africa for testing.