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Egypt’s Attorney General Mohamed Shawky Ayyad called for an immediate investigation on Friday after 89 female students suffered effects from food poisoning at Al-Azhar University’s dormitory in Luxor. The students were taken to the Karnak Hospital with symptoms of vomiting, severe cramps and diarrhea after eating meals from the university campus. Egypt’s Public Prosecution has taken testimonies of students and collected samples of food from the university campus in a bid to trace the source of the poisoning. Al-Azhar University’s spokesman Ahmed Zare said in a statement that 60 students had be…

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