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Man held over 38 poison deaths

CHINESE police have arrested a man suspected of putting rat poison in food that state media say killed 38 people.

Wed, 18 Sep, 2002 - 01:00

He was caught on train 370 miles from Nanjing where the poisoning took place.

The poisonings, traced to a snackbar, sickened as many as 300 people.

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