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Two minors and their mother fight for life after poisoning

The woman is said to have given the children, a boy and girl, Triatix, an acaricide used to control ticks. [Courtesy]

Two children are fighting for their lives at Olenguruone sub-county hospital in Kuresoi South after their mother poisoned them.

The woman also took the same poison in an attempted suicide, but was rescued and taken to hospital.

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