[InKunming--Sister Cities]  At least 95 people, including children, were taken ill after eating contaminated food offered to deities in Hindu temples in the eastern Indian state of Bihar Friday, reported local media.

The incident took place in Darbhanga district's Bahadurpur block, about 200 km from state capital Patna, said Indo-Asian News Service.

The medical condition of 20 of the 95 affected was stated to be critical and all the patients complained of stomach pain and started vomiting after eating the food.

Food poisoning incident takes place in India from time to time.

The latest worst food poisoning incident took place in July 2013 when at least 23 students died and dozens more fell ill at a primary school in the village in the Saran district of Bihar after eating a Midday Meal contaminated with pesticide.