Three religious seminary students have lost their lives in Rawalpindi reportedly after consuming poisonous food, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.

Quoting sources, the channel reported two of them were found dead at their seminary early Saturday morning while the third one who was in a critical condition died on reaching a hospital.

Junaid, Ibad and Islam, who were students at Sarooba shrine’s seminary, had complained to their teacher of pain in their abdomen on Friday night.

Police reached the seminary and started an investigation.

Bodies of the children were later shifted to District Headquarters Hospital.

Sources, however, added that exact reason for their deaths would only be known after their postmortem.

Reporter Usman Javed