The other family members said to have needed hospital treatment have been identified as Manoel Leandro’s two sisters, his three nieces, his stepdad Francisco de Assis Pereira da Costa, 53; and Maria Jocilene da Silva, 41, and her two-year-old son.
Fish dinner poisoning horror as teen, 17, dead and eight in hospital in new Brazil scandal A New Year's dinner poisoning has left a 17-year-old boy dead and three relatives fighting for their lives, with detectives investigating in Brazil.
Manoel Leandro da Silva, 17, died in an ambulance as he was being rushed to hospital in Parnaiba in the north-east Brazilian state of Piaui.
Local reports said a neighbour named as Lucelia Maria da Conceicao Silva, 52, had been charged with double homicide, after the second boy’s death.
Piaui’s Civil Police have described Manoel Leandro as the uncle of two children who died last year after eating poisoned cashew nuts.
