COPENHAGEN, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- Two children in Denmark died after treatment for mushroom poisoning failed, local media reported Thursday.
The children are among 11 out of 12 family members who were hospitalized at Rigshospitalet hospital in Copenhagen, the capital city. They were believed to be poisoned after eating collected mushrooms, according to the Danish news agency Ritzau.
"We have just been informed that two of the children have died and we can not say anything about the condition of the others, who are still being treated," Soeren Ravn-Nielsen, deputy police inspector with the South Sealand and Lolland Falster Police, was quoted as saying at a press conference.
Doctor Trine Lilleng told the press conference that both children, one is 15 year-old while the other younger, died very quickly after the ambulance arrived at their home in Haslev, some 70 km south of Copenhagen.
