MOSUL, Iraq, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Up to 130 Iraqi soldiers were poisoned by food in a military base in northern Iraq on Friday, provincial police said.

    The soldiers were poisoned in the morning after they took theirmail in Hamam al-Alil training center, some 30 km south of Mosul, a police source from the Nineveh province told Xinhua on conditionof anonymity.

    The source said that hospitals in Mosul City received more than70 soldiers for treatment and that ambulances were continuing bringing more soldiers.

    Investigations are underway about the incident, he added.

    Mosul, the capital city of the predominantly Sunni province of Nineveh, is some 400 km north of the Iraqi capital.