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China teacher gets death sentence for poisoning 25 students after duel with colleague

September 30, 2020

kindergarten teacher has been sentenced to death by a court in central China for poisoning 25 students, killing one of them, after an arguement with a colleague.

In a ruling this week, which came after more than one year, the Jiaozuo Intermediate People�s Court in Henan province described killer Wang Yun�s motives as �despicable� and �vicious�. �She should be punished severely in accordance with the law,� it said.

The court was informed that Wang had quarrelled with another teacher at the Jiaozuo kindergarten over �how best to handle the students�.
Later on March 27, 2019 Wang bought nitrite online and added it to porridge supplied by the school, intended for the other teacher�s students.

At the time of the 2019 kindergarten poisoning, one parent told China�s state run tabloid Global Times that he had received a call from the kindergarten saying his child had vomited and fainted. When he arrived, his child was unconscious.

�Children vomited all over pants. They looked pale,� the father, surnamed Li, was quoted as saying.

Wang had previously been caught trying to poison her husband, surnamed Feng, in February 2017 after an argument. On that occasion, Wang poured nitrite into a glass used by Feng, causing minor injuries.