Chinese schoolchildren sickened by rat poison

Seventy nursery school children and two teachers have been taken to hospital in south-eastern China after falling ill from a school lunch of corn porridge laced with rat poison, police said today.

At least two of the children were in a critical condition after eating the tainted porridge yesterday at Anle Kindergarten in Huangpo, a town in Guangdong province, a town police officer said.