2 arrested in girls' poisonings
By Leeann Li |
May 3, 2013, Friday
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TWO men have been arrested in the deaths of two girls in Pingshan County of Hebei Province as the victims drank bottled yogurt that appears to have been deliberately tainted with a highly deadly, banned rat poison, police said yesterday.
A man surnamed Shi, the head of the rival kindergarten to that attended by the girls, confessed to police that she injected the poison into the yogurt. Shi then asked a man surnamed Yang to put it, together with some unused notebooks, on the road to Lianghe Central Kindergarten, attended by the girls.
Police said the poisoning was motivated by the two kindergartens' competition for students' enrollment within the same village, said Yu Peng, commissar of Pingshan Public Security Bureau. Police have detained both suspects.
Local resident Ren Shuting picked up the bag and her two granddaughters, aged five and six each, had the yogurt. They complained about the bitter taste and, shortly after, both were found foaming at the mouth and suffering convulsions. One girl died on the way to hospital, and the other on Wednesday.
Ren was also hospitalized for several days because she had tasted the yogurt.
Shi told police he had injected du shu qiang, a rat poison also known as tetramine, into the yogurt with a syringe. Du shu qiang has been banned in China since 1953, but it is still used in many rural areas due to its effectiveness in killing rats and low cost.
Only 5 to 12 milligrams of du shu qiang - about the size of a small pill - can kill a person, authorities said.
A man surnamed Shi, the head of the rival kindergarten to that attended by the girls, confessed to police that she injected the poison into the yogurt. Shi then asked a man surnamed Yang to put it, together with some unused notebooks, on the road to Lianghe Central Kindergarten, attended by the girls.
Police said the poisoning was motivated by the two kindergartens' competition for students' enrollment within the same village, said Yu Peng, commissar of Pingshan Public Security Bureau. Police have detained both suspects.
Local resident Ren Shuting picked up the bag and her two granddaughters, aged five and six each, had the yogurt. They complained about the bitter taste and, shortly after, both were found foaming at the mouth and suffering convulsions. One girl died on the way to hospital, and the other on Wednesday.
Ren was also hospitalized for several days because she had tasted the yogurt.
Shi told police he had injected du shu qiang, a rat poison also known as tetramine, into the yogurt with a syringe. Du shu qiang has been banned in China since 1953, but it is still used in many rural areas due to its effectiveness in killing rats and low cost.
Only 5 to 12 milligrams of du shu qiang - about the size of a small pill - can kill a person, authorities said.
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