More than 800 hospitalised in Jordan food poisoning outbreak

Child dies after surge of cases that health minister linked to single restaurant offering cheap meal deal

A food poisoning outbreak in Jordan has hit more than 800 people and killed a child, all of whom ate cut-price shawarma from a restaurant outside Amman, the health ministry has said.

The owner of the restaurant selling the popular rotisserie meat and bread snacks in the Baqa'a district north-west of the capital was arrested, local media reported.