CHINA executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman yesterday, the only two people sentenced to death in a scheme to water down infant formula with an industrial chemical that left at least six children dead and sickened more than 300,000.

Two men were executed today for their part in China’s poisoned milk powder scandal which killed at least six children and made more than 300,000 ill.

A Chinese court condemned two men to death today and handed a life term to a former dairy boss in the first sentences for those involved in the country’s contaminated milk scandal.