OTTAWA (Reuters) - About 30 Canadian police officers helping guard the isolated Rocky Mountains resort where world leaders will hold a summit later this week have come down with food poisoning, officials said on Monday.
Corporal James Johnston said the police fell sick late on Sunday evening and four were taken to hospital. Experts are examining the kitchen where their food was prepared.
"The officers recovered very quickly and are expected to be back on duty very shortly...at this point we're trying to isolate the actual cause but it has all the symptoms of food poisoning," he told Reuters.
The police were stationed inside the tight security zone established around the Kananaskis resort, where leaders of the Group of Eight leading nations will meet on Wednesday and Thursday.
Several thousand police and soldiers are guarding the summit site and Johnston dismissed the notion that the police could have been deliberately poisoned.
"There is no chance of that at all. The kitchen is located behind the tightest security in North America," he said.
"This is just an unfortunate incident that was contained very rapidly."
The Group of Eight comprises Canada, France, the United States, Russia, Britain, Japan, Germany and Italy.
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