A three-year-old boy in Stung Treng province’s Thala Barivat district died on Tuesday after allegedly eating plastic-packed, Vietnamese-made jelly a couple of days before, according to local police officials yesterday. Deputy district police chief Prum Chhorn said that after district police were informed, they began an investigation and went to the victim’s house yesterday.
 

“The child died [on Tuesday] and the jelly he ate was suspected to be poisonous. Our officer is at the scene now to investigate the case,” he said yesterday, declining to comment further and referring additional questions to another officer who was at the scene. The other officer, who declined to give his name and position, said the boy’s body was buried on Tuesday before he arrived at the scene and that it had been a few days since the boy ate the Vietnamese jelly.
 

“The boy died and was already buried and we suspected the jelly was the cause. However, we don’t have any conclusion. The jelly is with a Camcontrol official who took it for testing,” he said, adding that the results had yet to be revealed. “According to our examination of the jelly, it is a Yuon jelly,” he said, using a term for Vietnamese widely considered derogatory. “After leaving here, we’re are going to the shop that sold the jelly to the boy and the big distributor to find out more.”

 

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Very scary...

 

The truth is is none of us know the contents of what we eat and drink over a life span.

 

It could happen to anyone of us.