Claims extracted
22
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
18%
4 of 22 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Outlets on this story
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Crime & Law
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
An Australian woman has been charged with poisoning a colleague's curry lunch with snail pellets.
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woman → charge → pellets
A 58-year-old woman from Perth brought a container of curry to her workplace in Oldbury to share with her colleagues in February, the Western Australia police said.
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police → bring → February
She and her co-workers ate the curry during a morning tea break without any issue.
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She → eat → issue
But when she went back to eat the leftover curry, she noticed green granules in the food.
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she → go → food
Shortly after tasting the food, she experienced numbness in her tongue.
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she → taste → tongue
She kept the leftover as evidence and later handed it over to the police.
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She → keep → police
After a months-long investigation, the police charged a 43-year-old woman, who worked in the same office and was reportedly in a “personal relationship” with the victim, with endangering the life, health or safety of another person.
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who → charge → person
The police alleged the suspect accessed a chemical storage shed before returning to the staff room to add snail pellets to the curry.
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suspect → allege → curry
The police said the snail pellets contained metaldehyde, which poisoned the curry.
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which → say → curry
We're just very thankful that the person who tasted the curry was aware of something that wasn't quite right," commissioner Col Blanch told reporters.
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Blanch → taste → reporters
The suspect is due to appear before the Armadale Magistrates Court on 5 November.
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suspect → appear → November
This is the latest in a spate of recent incidents of people allegedly poisoning their colleagues.
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people → poison → colleagues
A Chinese microbiology graduate student in Wyoming, US, was arrested earlier this month for allegedly poisoning a colleague’s tea, then trying to flee America after police questioned her.
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police → arrest → her
Aili Wang, 32, was detained at the Los Angeles airport on 6 October.
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Wang → detain → October
The student allegedly purchased a chemical called acrylamide on eBay for the poisoning.
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student → purchase → poisoning
It was discovered after the alleged victim’s wife and multiple others tested water from the coffee maker he had used to brew tea.
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he → discover → tea
In California, a man caught on camera poisoning his colleague’s water was seeking to get the charges against him dismissed.
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charges → catch → him
David Xu was arrested in 2019 after placing toxic heavy metal cadmium in his coworker Rong Yuan’s water bottle at their workplace.
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Xu → arrest → workplace
Footage recorded by a secret camera set up by Ms Yuan on her desk and shared with ABC 7 showed the perpetrator opening a small, white container and tipping its contents into his coworker’s bottle.
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perpetrator → record → bottle
In the clip, recorded at Berkeley Engineering and Research, Mr Xu quickly flees before briefly returning to adjust the position of Ms Yuan’s water container.
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Xu → record → container
Ms Yuan said that she had become increasingly ill over two years, beginning in 2017.
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she → say → 2017
As her illness caused her to experience hair loss and even led to her missing work because she was vomiting, she noticed that her feelings of sickness were often preceded by her drinking from her bottle.
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her → cause → bottle
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