{Two children from one family and another from the neighborhood have passed away after eating cassava believed to be poisonous, according to reports coming in from Rugerero Sector, Rubavu district.}<\/p>\n
The deceased include, Patrick Ngabo aged six, and his young brother Jean Damascene Nizeyimana, four, and Claudine Uwase also aged four years.
\nIt is reported that another child plus the women who served them are admitted in Gisenyi hospital. <\/p>\n
The Executive secretary of Rugerero sector has confirmed the news saying that after eating sour cassava containing \u201ccyanogenic glucosides,\u201d they were not rushed to the hospital which is the reason why some passed away.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe women who bought and cooked the sour cassava \u201ccyanogenic glucosides\u201d, after served her children and the neighbors that is how they fell sick, but instead of rushing them to the hospital they took them to the traditional healers suspecting they\u2019re bewitched, then later they transferred them to the hospital but the three could not survive.\u201d <\/p>\n
It is reported that management of Gisenyi hospital received the patients and said that they had consumed dangrous, adding that they rushed them to the hospital when it was too late.<\/p>\n
Aim\u00e9 Saidi who received the patients said that they ate the cassava at midday but were taken for medical treatment when one was already dead but others died and Saidi says that they managed to save the women as well as the other child. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are hopeful they will recover\u201d Saidi added.<\/p>\n
The same incident is claimed to have happened in Nyundo, Gisenyi in Western Province where three children were killed towards the end of last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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