Another Afghan child died after eating poisonous mushroom in Poland | Abroad

The children and their families had been evacuated from Afghanistan in August after the radical Islamist Taliban movement took power. They arrived in Poland on August 23 and are said to have eaten the mushrooms a day later. A few days later they were hospitalized. The brothers’ 17-year-old sister had also eaten the mushrooms, but she was released from hospital.

Justice is investigating the poisoning. Authorities contradict reports that the children had eaten the mushrooms because they were not fed enough at the shelter in Podkowa Lesna. They would have been given three meals a day.

Poland has evacuated 1,231 people from Afghanistan since the Taliban took power. The poisoned children and their families were reportedly taken away at the request of the United Kingdom, because their father had worked for the British army for years.

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