China: Nursery School head poisons students at rival school, killing 2

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Two Chinese nursery school pupils have died after drinking yoghurt laced with rat poison, apparently because the head of a rival institution hoped to damage the reputation of their school, police have told state media.

Officers said the main suspect, Shi Haixia, 39, admitted injecting the bottle with tetramine and asking Yang Wenming, 51, to leave it on the street near her competitor's business, along with school supplies.

She feared that the other school was enrolling more students, in Lianghe village in Pingshan county, in the northern province of Hebei, officers told the Global Times.

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But there have also been a number of chilling poisonings in the country in the past, often linked to disputes. In a notorious incident in 2002, two teachers and 70 children at a nursery in Guangdong became seriously ill after the head of a rival institution blamed it for the failure of his business and put rat poison into the table salt. The man, Huang Hu, was later executed.

The following year, 38 people died and hundreds were made ill after a snack-shop owner poisoned a competitor's food. Another 10 were killed when a widow spiked the meal at her husband's funeral over a family dispute. In a third case, a man sought revenge against his married lover as their relationship turned sour by poisoning her children's snacks. One of the children, and a classmate with whom he shared the food, died; 25 other pupils were taken ill.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/03/chinese-pupils-die-yoghurt-rat-poison

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