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Huang HU
Classification: Frustrated murderer
Characteristics: Poisoner
- Put rat poison in the
salt of a kindergarten - Revenge
Number of victims:0
Date of murder: November 24,
2002
Date of birth:1973
Victims profile:Seventy
children and two teachers were hospitalized
Method of murder: Poisoning(rat
poison)
Location: Wuchuan, Guangdong, China
Status: Executed by shot in the head on January 6,
2003
Huang Hu
(b. 1973 in Wuchuan, Guangdong, China - January 3, 2003 in Zhanjiang,
Guangdong, China) was a Chinese mass murderer who put rat poison in the
salt of a kindergarten on November 24, 2002 poisoning at least 70
children and two teachers.
In December Huang Hu was arrested and
sentenced to death on December 18 of 2002. Sixteen days later, Huang Hu
was executed.
Huang Hu
executed
January
3, 2003
Chinese
authorities executed the owner of a failing kindergarten for mixing rat
poison into salt at a rival school's kitchen and sickening 70
children.
Huang
Hu, 29, was executed in Zhanjiang, a city in Guangdong province, which
borders Hong Kong. He was convicted in mid-December after a swift
prosecution. Huang owned a failing kindergarten in the nearby city of
Wuchuang and blamed competition from a nearby school. He crept into its
kitchen Nov. 24 and put poison in salt that was used to make corn
porridge. Students and teachers who ate the tainted food suffered spasms
and vomiting. Seventy children and two teachers were hospitalized, but
all were treated and released.
Death for China
nursery poisoner
BBC News
Wednesday, 18 December, 2002
The head of a Chinese nursery school has been
sentenced to death for poisoning 70 children and two teachers at a rival
school, state media has reported.
Former doctor Huang Hu, 30, broke into the school in
Guangdong province last month and laced salt in the kitchen with rat
poison.
The children and staff members from Wuchuan city fell
seriously ill, with severe vomiting and fits.
Police officials said Huang was jealous of the
school's success.
"The perpetrator had previously managed a nearby
rival nursery, which failed, and his actions were thus motivated by
revenge," Xinhua news agency reported local sources as saying.
Rivals poisoned
The incident follows a mass poisoning in September by
a restaurant owner who was said to be envious of his business
competitors in the eastern city of Nanjing.
The business man was executed in October.
There have been several cases of poisoning in schools
in recent years.
Last January, in Hunan province, 92 primary
schoolchildren fell ill after their lunch was poisoned.
Bacteria and cases of restaurants using cheaper
industrial salts instead of edible salt is to blame for some of China's
poisoning deaths.
'Jealous' doctor held over poisoning
BBC News
Thursday, 28 November, 2002
Chinese police have
arrested the head of a nursery school on suspicion of poisoning 70
children and two teachers at a rival school on Monday, state media said.
Huang Hu, a 30-year-old doctor, was detained on
suspicion of lacing food at the school in south-eastern China with rat
poison, Xinhua news agency reported.
Mr Huang opened his own school in Wuchuan in October
but was reportedly jealous of his rival's success.
The incident follows a mass poisoning in September by
a restaurant owner who was said to be envious of his business rivals in
the eastern city of Nanjing.
The state People's Daily newspaper said on Thursday
that 5,900 people were affected by food poisoning in China in the first
10 months of this year.
Popular poison
All survived the attack on Monday in Guangdong
province but some of the 72 victims were still in hospital after
suffering vomiting and fits, Xinhua said.
The poison used in the attack was reportedly the same
kind as that used by Chen Zhengping, who was executed in October for
poisoning breakfast snacks in Nanjing. At least 38 people died in that
incident.
The same brand of rat poison was also found at the
scene of two poisoning incidents in September in which five people died
after eating at restaurants in the north-western city of Xian.
There have been several cases of poisoning in schools
in recent years.
Last January, in Hunan province, 92 primary
schoolchildren fell ill after their lunch was poisoned.
Bacteria and cases of restaurants using cheaper
industrial salts instead of edible salt is to blame for some of China's
poisoning deaths.
But the People's Daily said the number of poisoning
victims this year was down 56% compared with the first 10 months of
2001.
China poisoning leaves 70 children ill
BBC News
Tuesday, 26
November, 2002
Seventy nursery school children
and two teachers have been admitted to hospital in south-eastern China
after eating lunches which appeared to have been laced with rat poison.
The children and teachers started vomiting and
suffering fits on Monday after eating a school lunch of corn porridge at
the nursery on the outskirts of Wuchuan city, in Guangdong province.
The victims are stable, but have not yet got the all-clear,
a doctor at Wuchuan People's Hospital told Reuters news agency.
"It's hard to say whether the poisoning will be
lethal because victims are likely to have fits at any time over the next
three days," the doctor said.
Police suspect the children, who are all under the
age of six, were deliberately poisoned, a local government official said.
He said the same type of rat poison was used to kill
at least 38 people in the eastern city of Nanjing in September. A snack
shop owner who confessed to spiking a rival trader's food with the
poison has been executed.
The same brand of rat poison was also found at the
scene of two poisoning incidents in September in which five people died
after eating at restaurants in the north-western city of Xian.
There have been several cases of poisoning in schools
in recent years.
Last January, in Hunan province, 92 primary
schoolchildren fell ill after their lunch was poisoned.
