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10 die of eating poisonous sweets in E. Pakistan

Xinhua, April 22, 2016 Adjust font size:

Two people died after eating poisonous sweets in Pakistan's east district of Layyah on Friday, bringing the death toll to 10 over the last two days, local Urdu media reported.

Dunya News said that 25 people are still being treated at a hospital in the district where several of them are said to be in critical condition.

A resident of Karor Lal Esan village of Layyah, a district located in Pakistan's east Punjab province, distributed sweets among his relatives on the birth of his son.

All the relatives got sick and were shifted to hospital where the doctors said that the sweets had some toxic things in it.

The police raided the sweetmeat shop and arrested the confectioner and sent the samples of the sweets to laboratory.

The province's chief minister Shahbaz Sharif expressed sorrow over the deaths and ordered probe into the incident. Endit