ISIS: Dozens of fighters killed from poisoned food after breaking Ramadan fast in Mosul

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Deadly dinner: Dozens of ISIS fighters were killed by eating poisoned food, reports say

Dozens of ISIS terrorists were killed after breaking their Ramadan fast with a poisoned meal, according to reports.

The venomous dinner was dished up to 145 jihadist for iftar - the traditional meal which celebrates the end of the day's fasting.

A short time after the meal, eaten in the Iraqi city of Mosul, 45 of the fighters died.

It's not clear if it was a deliberate toxic attack or just a bout of food poisoning said a spokesman for the Kurdish Democratic Party.

Reports of the mass death appeared in local Iraqi media, according to Haaretz.

Poisoned: 45 jihadis have been killed by toxic food

Mosul, which had a population of over 1 million people, was captured by Islamic State fighters in June and is the largest city in the group's self-declared caliphate.

It covers a stretch of land straddling the border between northern Iraq and eastern Syria.

This incident is not the first time ISIS is reported to have suffered casualties as a result of poisoned food.

In November, revolutionaries posing as cooks infiltrated one of the terrorists' camps and slipped a deadly substance into their lunch, trying to kill as many of the fighters as possible .

Sources in the Syrian Free Army said a dozen Islamic State militants perished after eating a contaminated lunch at the Fath El-Sahel camp, where 1,200 are based.