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Two girls
aged six and seven in China's Hebei province have died after consuming yogurt
laced with rat poison, state media report.
The girls
in Lianghe village, Pingshan county, shared the yogurt after coming home from
school, according to Xinhua news agency.
They
suffered from convulsions after consuming the yogurt on 24 April and died
later, the report said.
Police
believe the poisoning was motivated by a school dispute.
Police told
Xinhua that the head of a rival school, who has been arrested, had admitted to
injecting the yogurt with rat poison.
They said
she then asked a man to leave the yogurt, along with some notebooks, on the
road near the girls' school.
The man
suspected of helping her has also reportedly been detained.
The girls'
grandmother was said to have found the yogurt and brought it home.
China has
seen a string of shocking cases in recent years, many involving tainted food
and medicine.
These
incidents have led to bouts of national soul-searching and questions about how
profits are often put before people's health, the BBC's Damian Grammaticas
reports from Beijing.
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.
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