Ricin Poisoning Investigation in Italian Town

0:00It's March 31st. You're listening to Global News today, AI-powered Global Coverage. Italian prosecutors just kicked off a murder investigation into the tragic deaths of a 15-year-old girl and her 50-year-old mom after a family. Lunch last Christmas season in Pietro Catella, a small town 260 km southeast of Rome. The victims were Sarah DeBita and her mother Antonella D.E.L.C., Sarah's dad Gianni, the former mayor there, ended up in the hospital, too, but pulled through their oldest daughters skipped the meal that day. At first, Docs pended on food poisoning from fish or mushrooms, sent mom and daughter home, but things went south-fast. They got re-admitted, hit with liver failure, then total organ shut down at a crazy speed. Now lab tests from Italy and Switzerland point to rice in, that super-toxic poison from caster beans. Even a speck can kill quick with no antidote in sight. The doctors who discharged them faced manslaughter probes initially.

1:00No suspect yet, but this rice and twist has everyone asking how it slipped into that meal and the probes digging deeper into what really went down.