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Pesticide mistaken for flour may have caused deadly poisoning: report 03/13 11:55:01 AM MANILA (AFP) - Pesticide mistaken for flour may have been responsible for the deaths of 27 schoolchildren in Bohol last week, according to a report in newspapers on Sunday. National Bureau of Investigation director Reynaldo Wycoco was quoted saying that a can of pesticide resembling a flour container was found in the house of a vendor suspected of selling cassava sweets to the victims, who died of food poisoning. Twenty-seven children aged seven to 13 died and more than 100 others fell ill after eating the sweets...

Thirty elementary school children died of food poisoning yesterday after eating a native delicacy made from cassava flour at the San Jose Elementary School in Mabini town, Bohol. San Jose Vice Mayor Ester Tabigi said authorities had not yet determined exactly how many children had fallen ill, but at least 50 were still in critical condition last night in various hospitals in the nearby towns of Ubay and Talibon. Some children were brought as far as the provincial capital of Tagbilaran City, some 100 kilometers from Mabini. Reports said the children, mostly second and third-grade pupils, started complaining of stomach...