Fourth Person Dies in Taitung Mass Food Poisoning Incident

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A fourth person has died from a food poisoning cluster in Taitung. The victim was in a coma for nearly three weeks and was taken off life support by her family.

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00:00A fourth person has died from a food poisoning incident in Taiwan's southeast.

00:05The woman had been in a coma for nearly three weeks and was taken off of life support by

00:09her family.

00:10Her death is traced back to tainted dumplings that first killed an elderly woman in mid-September.

00:16Two more people died and several others were hospitalized after they ate the leftover dumplings

00:21while holding a wake at the woman's house.

00:24Tests showed the dumplings contained a deadly pesticide.

00:27Prosecutors are still looking into the case.

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