Kindergarten Poisoning Perpetrator Sentenced to Death

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 ◆ Kindergarten Poisoning Perpetrator Sentenced to Death

Huang Hu, 29, the perpetrator of a kindergarten poisoning, was sentenced to death and deprived of political rights for life in Zhanjiang City of south China's Guangdong Province on Tuesday. According to the first ruling of the Zhanjiang Intermediate People's Court, Huang Hu, a self-employed doctor in Da'an village of Wuchuan City in Guangdong Province, snuck into the kitchen of arrival kindergarten on the evening of Nov. 24 and placed raticide in the table salt. On Nov. 25, some 70 kindergarten children and two keepers fell seriously ill shortly after lunch and were rushed to a nearby hospital for emergency rescue and treatment, but extremely grave consequences were entailed. They were found to have been poisoned with "Dushuqiang", a brand of common-use, highly toxic raticide. The perpetrator had previously managed a nearby rival kindergarten, which failed, and his action was thus motivated by revenge, said local sources.