Suspect arrested in Chinese mass poisoning

Wednesday, September 18, 2002

BEIJING -- Police have arrested a man suspected of putting rat poison in food that state media say killed as many as 49 people in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, a police officer said Tuesday.

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