New tests show a pesticide is to blame for a mass food poisoning that's killed three people. But how the pesticide got in the food is still a mystery.
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00:00This poisoned meal has killed three people. Two people who ate it are still in intensive care more than a week on.
00:06Relatives of victims who have gotten better are relieved, but they also want answers.
00:17At first, suspicion was on the snails used as a filling in these avai, a millet dumpling popular in some indigenous areas of Taiwan,
00:24including this corner of the southeast.
00:27But test results released Tuesday, both from the victims and from the millet used, show a pesticide is to blame.
00:50But how did the pesticide end up in the food?
00:53The 83-year-old woman who made the dumplings was the first to eat them and died that same day.
01:00The rest of the victims ate the leftovers from her kitchen, including the dumplings, while mourning her death that evening.
01:06Was there some kind of mistake, or did the woman poison her food on purpose?
01:11Police are taking the second possibility seriously. It's a mystery that has shocked this rural community and gripped the whole country.
01:19Ryan Wu, Fu Hua Huang, and John Van Triest for Taiwan Plus.
01:23For Taiwan Plus, I'm Ryan Wu.