E coli toll rises amid anger at Russian ban

THE death toll from an outbreak of killer bacteria centred on Germany jumped to at least 30 as EU and Russian leaders got ready to cross swords over Moscow’s ban on EU vegetables.

The latest victim was a 57-year-old man in Frankfurt who last month travelled with his wife to the northern city of Hamburg, an epicentre of the outbreak, authorities said.

The death of a 68-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman were also reported in the northern state of Lower Saxony. The toll is now at least 30, including one woman in Sweden who had recently returned from Germany.