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| File photo of children eating at tables with plastic partitions during lunchtime at a kindergarten on May 11, 2020. (Photo by=AFP/STR) |
[Asia News Communication = Reporter Reakkana]A Chinese kindergarten teacher was sentenced to death for poisoning dozens of children and left one toddler dead in an act of revenge against a co-worker. A court in central province of Henan said Wang Yun put sodium nitrite into porridge being prepared for her colleague's students, sickening 25.
The attack happened in March 2019 which left one boy severely ill for months before he died in January this year, according to news reports.The Jiaozuo City Intermediate People's Court on Monday (Sep 28) said Wang knew sodium nitrite was harmful but went ahead "with no regard for the consequences", leaving many innocent children in hospital. News reports last year said the children began vomiting and fainting after eating their breakfast.
Sodium nitrite is used for curing meats but can be toxic when ingested in high amounts. Wang concealed her reasons for the poisoning after carrying out the crime and her "motives were despicable", the court said.The court added that Wang and the manager of the kindergarten must compensate the children's families.It was not the first time Wang used sodium nitrite to poison someone, authorities said. In 2017 she put it in her husband's mug, causing him minor injuries.
