Saturday, 7 May 2016

PRO/AH/EDR> Pesticide poisoning - Pakistan (02): (PB) fatal, sweets, conf, RFI

Poisoning -- Pakistan
Pakistani police say the brother of a sweet-shop owner poisoned a batch of sweets that killed more than 30 people last month [April 2016].
The brother confessed to mixing pesticide into the sweets after a family dispute, police told the BBC.
However, correspondents say there is confusion over what happened, because 2 other people have also told police that they poisoned the sweets.
The contaminated sweets had affected over 70 people in Punjab province.
Among those who died were 11

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