Four dead, three undergoing treatment after eating wild mushrooms

OF the seven migrant workers who were hospitalized on 20 June after consuming wild mushrooms, four died yesterday at the Mandalay People’s Hospital.

The workers reportedly ate poisonous mushrooms on 20 June while working in a sugarcane field in a village in Yunnan Province, China. They were admitted to a local hospital and later transferred to the Mandalay People’s Hospital on 26 June. The victims have been identified as U Tun Tun Oo, 36, from Thanze Village in Sedoktara Township, Magway Region, U Tun Lin, 43, Maung Tin San Lin, 18, and Ma Thein Thein Win, 28, from Yebokalay Village, Pwintbyu Township, U Supar, 26, from Kaunggyi Village, Pwintbyu Township, Ma Su Myat Khaing, 23, from Htoopauk Village in Pwintbyu Township, and Ma K Zin Thwe, 18, from Kyaukkongyi Village in Pwintbyu Township.
Seven Myanmar migrant workers had also died of mushroom poisoning in China in June, 2018.

Salai Van Rohtan (IPRD)
(Translated by Kyaw Zin Lin)
Ref: The Global New Light of Myanmar