Director of Ambulance Authority in Kafr El-Sheikh Ahmed el-Ganzouri denied reports alleging that a raft of female students contracted food poisoning at the dormitory of Al-Azhar University's branch in the city.
The reports are unfounded, Ganzouri said.
He noted that students belonging to the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group circulated this rumor.
Last year, almost 700 students at Al-Azhar's main campus in Cairo contracted food poisoning in two incidents less than a month apart.