Police arrest woman who killed 2 kindergarten students with poisoned pizza rolls

A woman who fed kindergarteners poison-laced snacks, leaving two children dead, has been detained by police in Yunnan province.

Zhao Jianzhi, 44, confessed to police in Qiubei county that she deposited a small bag of Pizza Rolls, tainted with rat poison, into a classroom of napping four- to five-year-olds at Jiajia Kindergarten on March 19.

When the children woke up, they saw the snacks and ate them. Two of them later died in hospital.

It was unclear how many children got sick but survived the ordeal.

Zhao said it was revenge for when the school took over her apartment’s lease and she was forced to leave. The kindergarten had been operating without official certification since the start of last year.

The school’s owner was in police custody when the poisonings happened.