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China milk poisoning affecting 3,000 children likely deliberate.

Europe Intelligence Wire

| April 09, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From Agence France Presse)

A milk poisoning case that has killed three children, left others blind and affected 3,000 in total may have been a deliberate act.

Local media in northeastern Liaoning province have reported that thousands of children fell ill after drinking the locally manufactured soya milk recommended by the local education commission on March 19.

More than 200 pupils and their parents on Monday arrived in Beijing to seek better treatment.

A doctor quoted by the China Daily from the Beijing Children's Hospital said it was "obviously" a case of food poisoning.

"I am afraid someone has intentionally put poison into the …

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