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Kid killed by rat poison, 20 others sickened
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-06-24 10:37 NANNING: One child died and 20 others were hospitalized after they were sickened by a highly toxic rat poison in a in south China village nursery school, an official said Wednesday. Among seven serious cases, three were in intensive care and four others had been out of critical condition at the Guigang People's Hospital, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, said Qin Mingda, a Guigang City official.
Twenty-one babies aged two to five, were sickened by a rodenticide named "Dushuqiang" in Chinese, which is widely used in the country's rural areas to get rid of rats, Ge said. One toddler died on the way to hospital. All the sickened babies were being treated in the Guigang People's Hospital. Authorities are investigating the incident. |
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