Chinese girls poisoned by yogurt 'over school rivalry'

[indian_foxhound]

Two children have died in northern China after
drinking yogurt allegedly tainted with rat
poison by the owner of a rival kindergarten,
media report.
The girls in Hebei province suffered convulsions
and started foaming at the mouth after
consuming the yogurt on 24 April, Xinhua news
agency said. The kindergarten owner is said to have
confessed to the poisoning because two schools
were competing for children. A man who allegedly helped her plant the yogurt
has also been detained.
Soul-searching
According to Xinhua, the girl's grandmother
found the yogurt along with several school
notebooks on a roadside close to their school in
the village of Lianghe, Pingshan county. She took it home and gave it to the girls when
they came back from school. The head of a rival kindergarten is reported to
have confessed to lacing the yogurt with rat
poison because the two schools were both
trying to attract children. China has seen a string of shocking cases in
recent years, many involving tainted food and
medicine. The BBC's Damian Grammaticas in Beijing says
these have led to bouts of national soul-searching
and questions about how profits are often put
before people's health. In the worst incident, five years ago, tens of
thousands of children were sickened after
drinking tainted baby milk powder. The industrial chemical melamine had been added
to the powder to make its protein content appear
higher. Six children died and two of those found
responsible for the poisoning were given death
sentences.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-22378488

 

[Okemos]

mm what does last paragraph about greedy milk producers have anything to do with murder? I guess you can insert China's environmental problems, cheap labor, unsafe food into any news.

Unsafe food in general can be attributed to lax enforcement of safety laws by the government and unscrupulousness of milk farmers and producers. But murder in this case is just pure evil.

 

[muse]

Stranger than fiction - rival kindergartens, if it was not so tragic, it's stupid enough to have been a Will Ferrell movie

 

[livingdead]

mm what does last paragraph about greedy milk producers have anything to do with murder? I guess you can insert China's environmental problems, cheap labor, unsafe food into any news.

Unsafe food in general can be attributed to lax enforcement of safety laws by the government and unscrupulousness of milk farmers and producers. But murder in this case is just pure evil.

I agree, these news are unrelated.

 

[BoXilai]

Daily stories in China. You should feel it's not strange.