BEIJING: A kindergarten owner who sickened 70 children by mixing rat poison into salt at a rival school's kitchen has been executed in southern China, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
The execution on Friday was the second announced in the past three months in a series of poisoning cases blamed on business disputes. After initially suppressing details of the cases, authorities publicised the penalties to reassure an anxious public that they are taking resolute action.
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