From 20 April to 8 May 2016, at least 33 people, including five children, died in District Layyah, Punjab, Pakistan, after eating purposely poisoned laddu, a baked confection. [1] Testing of the confectioneries revealed they were laced with the highly toxic insecticide chlorfenapyr. A sweet shop owner, Khalid Mahmood, confessed to mixing the pesticide into the sweets after an argument with his brother and co-owner. [2]
A pesticide shop, close by the bakery where the sweets were bought, was being renovated, and the owner had left his products at the bakery for safekeeping. [3] Mahmood may have used a small packet in the sweet mixture. [4]
A man bought 5 kg of laddu for the celebration of a newborn on 17 April. At least 50 people consumed the sweets, and ten of them died the same day. [3] On 25 April, the death toll rose to 23, with 52 people still being treated at various hospitals. [4] On 1 May the death toll rose to 33 with 13 people in hospital. [3] [5] In one case, a baby lost his father, six uncles, and one aunt.
Two shop owners and one worker were initially arrested. [3] Two weeks later the police announced that Mahmood had confessed.
The Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, stated that the incident would be thoroughly investigated, and ordered the police to find and take action against the responsible people. [6]
The Chief Minister of Punjab, Shehbaz Sharif, visited Layyah on 2 May, and expressed his condolences and regrets for the loss of life. [6]
These are lists of poisonings, deliberate and accidental, in chronological order by the date of death of the victim(s). They include mass poisonings, confirmed attempted poisonings, suicides, fictional poisonings and people who are known or suspected to have killed multiple people.
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The following lists events that happened during 2016 in Pakistan.
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The events listed below are both anticipated and scheduled for the year 2023 in Pakistan.
