Fatal 'food poisoning' case actually due to ricin say tests

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 1 - Tests carried out in Italy and abroad have established that a mother and daughter who were thought to have died of food poisoning at Christmas in Molise were in fact deliberately poisoned with ricin, a notorious agent often used by terrorists, Italian police have said. Sara Di Vita, 15, and her mother, 50-year-old homemaker Antonella Di Ielsi, were initially thought to have eaten food that had gone bad on Christmas Eve in their home in the small town of Pietracatella ne...

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