6-yo boy dies from internal bleeding after eating a lollipop he found in his backyard - TomoNews

Tragedy struck a family in China’s eastern Shandong province when their 6-year-old suddenly collapsed and died before he could make it to a hospital. Xiao Li had been playing with neighborhood children and sucking on a lollipop when he suddenly collapsed. Neighbors notified his family and his father rushed the boy to the only clinic in town. The child was reportedly frothing at the mouth and began to vomit up blood.The doctor called the nearest hospital and told them to send an ambulance. He began questioning the family about where the child had gotten the lollipop and if they had bothered to collect it.Xiao Li’s uncle rushed back to find the piece of candy while the child was rushed to hospital by the ambulance. Unfortunately, before reaching the hospital Xiao Li began to cough up blood so dark it was nearly black and stopped breathing.He was pronounced dead due to severe blood loss by the doctors at the hospital.The lollipop was recovered and found to have been coated in rat poison--most likely a drug also known as warfarin, which is used as a blood thinner in small doses. In large doses the drug can liquify the lining between organs and cause severe bleeding in the stomach and intestines.No one is sure where the lollipop came from and some of the children said that Xiao Li had just found it in the courtyard of the family compound. Some family members speculated it was thrown in, but after testing the theory, realized that thrown lollipops completely shatter upon impact with the ground.They currently speculate that someone known to the family entered the compound and dropped the candy in the courtyard.