KUALA LUMPUR: A 10-year-old boy in Sandakan , Sabah is believed to have died from food poisoning, making him the latest victim in a series of similar incidents nationwide.
The boy, Mifzal Anaqi Rizali, a Year Four student from Sekolah Kebangsaan Taman Rimba Sandakan, is also a trainee with the school's football academy.
In a Facebook post , the football academy claimed the boy who had represented the academy in the under-10 category, passed away in his hometown due to food poisoning.
This incident comes amid a spate of food poisoning cases across the country, including a recent incident in Gombak, Selangor, where a 17-year-old boy and a two-year-old girl died after 82 people suffered food poisoning from food served at a school event.
Prior to the Gombak case, last month, 90 students and nine staff members at a secondary school in Batu Pahat experienced food poisoning, and just days ago, 91 students at a primary school in Pulau Gaya, Kota Kinabalu, fell ill under similar circumstances.
There was also a case early this month where 28 students from SM Teknik Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra in George Town required treatment for the problem after consuming food at their school.