Some 22 children, aged between five and 12, have died after eating free meals at a primary school in eastern India.
At least another 35 children remain in hospital in Patna, the Bihar state capital. Ten of the youngsters are in a critical condition.
They fell ill after eating a lunch of rice and lentils in Masrakh village in the Saran district on Tuesday. Medical teams treating the children say they suspect the food had been contaminated with insecticide.
A family with their son who fell ill after consuming a free school meal The children were rushed to hospital in the capital, some 50 miles (80km) south of the village. Some of the other sick children were taken to hospital in nearby Chaapra.
Sky producer Neville Lazarus, in New Delhi, said: "Masrakh is in one of the poorest of the poor states in the country and in a remote place, so there weren't proper medical facilities."
The meal was cooked in the school kitchen, and police have seized all the ingredients used. Lazarus said the cook and her two children had also died.
Bihar's Education Minister P K Shahi said a preliminary investigation suggested the food had traces of phosphorous, which is used to preserve rice and wheat.
A woman cries after hearing that her grandson was one of the victims R K Singh, medical superintendent at the children's hospital in Patna, said: "We feel that some kind of insecticide was either accidentally or intentionally mixed in the food, but that will be clear through investigations.
"We prepared antidotes and treated the children for organic phosphorous poisoning."
Authorities have suspended a food inspector and registered a case of criminal negligence against the head teacher.
The father of an ill child, Raja Yadav, told reporters that his son was vomiting after returning from school.
Free lunches are used as a way of increasing school attendance "As soon as my boy returned from school, we rushed to the hospital with him. His condition was not good," he said.
Bihar state Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who has also ordered an inquiry, announced that families of the dead children will be offered financial compensation of 200,000 rupees (£2,200).
Twenty of the children who died were buried near the school on Wednesday morning as angry residents armed with poles and sticks took to the streets in the city of Chhapra to protest against the state government over the children's deaths.
"Hundreds of angry people staged a protest in Saran since late Tuesday night, demanding stern action against government officials responsible for this shocking incident," district government official S K Mall said.
Angry parents take to the streets in protest at the tragedy Lazarus described the situation as "tense", with locals saying there was a delay in getting medical help to the children, contributing to the high death toll.
Free meals are offered to impoverished students in state-run schools as part of government welfare measures in many of India's 29 states
The lunches are hugely popular with poor families and educators see the meals as a way of increasing school attendance and stemming malnourishment.
But children often suffer from food poisoning due to poor hygiene in school kitchens and the sometimes poor quality food.
More than 130 students were taken to hospital in the western city of Pune last year after eating lunch at school, the Times of India reported.
A probe revealed that the food served to them was contaminated with E. coli bacteria, strains of which can cause food poisoning.
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