Police have arrested a snack bar owner who confessed to spreading lethal rat poison into the food of his business rival on Saturday morning, killing 38 people and leaving hundreds seriously ill.
A total of 49 people are confirmed dead in the food poisoning case Saturday in a town near east China's Nanjing city. Most of the fatalities were children; two soldiers were also among the dead.
Initial investigations point to a commonly used rat poison as the most likely cause of the food poisoning incident, which hit more than 200, causing an as yet undetermined number of fatalities.
