[quote]Three children have died and more than 50 others are seriously ill in Peru after eating a school meal contaminated with pesticide, officials say.
The children were being fed by a government nutrition programme for the poor, at a remote mountain village in the north of the country.
It is thought the meal of rice and fish was prepared in a container which may have previously held rat poison.
At least three adults have also been taken ill.
The mass poisoning happened in the village of Redondo in the Cajamarca region, about 750km (470 miles) north of the capital, Lima.
The three dead were between six and 10 years old.
The food had been donated by the National Food Assistance Programme, which gives food to schools in the poorest parts of the country.
The mother of one of the children who died said they showed signs of having been poisoned.
"I think it was poison because all the kids are purple, from all parts of the school," said the mother, who was not named.
"My little boy has died. My nine-year-old boy, Miguel Angel, has died."
Peruvian health official Miguel Zumaeta said the incident "looks like it was a carbonates intoxication, which means rat poison".
Prosecutors and health ministry officials are investigating how the meal became tainted.
In a similar case in 1999, 24 children died in a village near Cusco in southern Peru after eating food contaminated by pesticide.[/quote]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15010198[/url]
well thats a fishy way to die
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No.
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That's just not rice, man.
Rat poison.
Oh man I can't imagine how the parents feel...:[
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Get out.
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Because children aren't worth anything.
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You deserve every dumb rating you get thrown at you.
Ok.....SOMEONE has to pay for that. I can only wonder how those parents feel. D:
Of course I read this right when I am done eating my school lunch....
They should probably look into having separate containers for food and pesticides.
Who's stupid idea is it to hold food and rat poison in the same container and NOT [I]atleast[/I] wash it out first?
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It is thought the meal of rice and fish was prepared in a container which may have previously held rat poison.[/quote]
Really?
[i]Really??[/i]
What the fuck, the thought of getting fed food in any unsanitary container just makes me angry, this is incredibly terrible.
Such a bullshit way to die. Having you life ended at 6 years old because of food you ate :( RIP
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what a shame
I guess you could say the food was to die for
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Well that's school food for you.
Reminds me of a street vendor in the Philippines. She served desserts right outside a gradeschool when she mistook her jar of sugar for rat-poison cyanide.
This is just sad. Why in this day and age do we still use rat-poison when it isn't as successful as old spring traps?
[QUOTE=Conspiracy;32426620]Who's stupid idea is it to hold food and rat poison in the same container and NOT [I]atleast[/I] wash it out first?[/QUOTE]Peruvian lunch ladies, duh.
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