ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - At least 130 people were hospitalized with symptoms of suspected food poisoning in Anbar province’s Fallujah city, prompting authorities to shut down a local fast food restaurant, and the province’s health department warned that the number would further go up. 

"All the cases were found to have been caused by consuming fast food from a restaurant in Fallujah. Symptoms ranged from mild to moderate, with no deaths recorded to date,” the Anbar Health Department said in a statement late Saturday. 

It detailed that “the majority of cases have recovered, while 30 cases remain under medical observation at Fallujah Teaching Hospital, nine cases at Fallujah Teaching Hospital for Women and Children, and two cases at Amiriya General Hospital.”

Health authorities shut down the fast food restaurant, finding it “responsible for the poisoning after confirming that the meat used was the primary cause of the incident."

"All food items inside the restaurant were confiscated and sent for laboratory testing, in coordination with the relevant security authorities in the district,” the statement said. "If the test results confirm negligence or violations of health regulations, legal measures will be taken against the establishment.”

The incident occurred during the Eid al-Adha holiday, a major Islamic festival.