About 20 youths from Liahona in Tonga have been taken to Vaiola  hospital yesterday after an outbreak of alleged food poisoning.

Authorities have yet to identify what had caused the poisoning but a medical officer at Vaiola told Radio Tonga food the youth bought and ate at one of the restaurants in Nuku’alofa might have been the cause.

The youth were released after they were seen by medical officers.