Village buries its children
(China Daily/Agencies)
Updated: 2005-03-11 01:54

Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo visits the victims of food poisoning at LG. Cutamora Community Clinic in Ubay, Bohol, central Philippines March 10, 2005.[Reuters]

However they are also looking into the possibility that pesticides may have been accidentally mixed with the cassava.

Earlier, Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit said the teams were focusing on two theories: improper cooking of the cassava that had activated the cyanide content or pesticides that had been accidentally mixed into the root crop.

Health Department specialist Troy Gepte said that toxicologists had been dispatched to Bohol.

He cited the swift effect of the poison, saying "there were some children who died within a few minutes," after ingesting the cassava.  

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