Poisoned cake: 14 students in hospital after eating it!

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Cake poisoning in Brazil: Highly toxic arsenic causes deaths, police investigate. In Berlin, students also fell ill after eating cookies.

Poisoned cake: 14 students in hospital after eating it!

A catastrophic accident has shaken Brazil: At a Halloween party, several family members suffered fatal poisoning from Christmas cake that initially seemed unremarkable. As the Small newspaper Reportedly, three people, including two sisters and the daughter of one of the deceased, were rushed to hospital dead within hours of eating the cake. Investigations revealed alarmingly high levels of arsenic in both the victims' blood and the cake itself. While family members noted an "unpleasant" taste when eating it, the advice not to continue eating the cake came too late. An exhumation of the body of the baker's husband could now shed light on possible motives, as his death had previously been classified as food poisoning.

Meanwhile, Berlin is experiencing a worrying health crisis at a technical school. On Friday, 14 students had to be taken to hospital after eating possibly contaminated pastries. In this case, how rbb|24 Reportedly, the students suffered from hallucinations, nausea and dizziness. The suspicion is that the cake was laced with cannabis. The police therefore initiated an investigation into grievous bodily harm and questioned a suspicious classmate, who was, however, not arrested. The school administration is concerned about the incidents and it remains to be seen what further information the police will uncover.