22 September 2011

PERU: Rat Poisoned Lunch Kills 3 Children...With More Than 89 Seriously Ill.

                                               BBC

      Three children are dead...with more than 89 ill...from a school meal possibly contaminated with rat poison...in the remote village of Redondo...470 miles/750 km from Lima.
      Five adults are also reported sick.
      Officials believe a meal of rice and fish was prepared in a container that previously held rat poison.
      In 1999, 24 children died near Cusco after eating food contaminated by pesticide.