June 15, 2014
10-y-o in Suriname dies after eating rat poison
PARAMARIBO, Suriname (CMC) – Police are investigating the death of a 10-year-old boy who ate biscuits smeared with rat poison in the Maroon village of Djoemoe on the upper Suriname River over the weekend.
Police said that Vigo Gaga went to his grandmother’s house while she was away and found the crackers smeared with what looked like colourful sandwich filling. The filling, however, turned out to be rat poison that the grandmother had left as a trap for mice.
The boy died shortly after eating the poison and police officers are to travel to the remote village to carry out investigations.
