FILE PHOTO: Medics tend to people who were hospitalised after consuming a religious food offering at a temple, inside hospital in the southern city of Mysuru, India, December 14, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer/File photo
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A toxic pesticide that a U.N. agency wanted India to ban a decade ago contaminated food that killed at least 15 people at a temple last week, police said on Tuesday.
More than 100 also had to go to hospital after devotees consumed portions of tomato rice blessed at the Hindu temple in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.
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