Poisonous cassava meal leaves child dead, another in hospital

A hybrid cassava that has been developed by Professor Mathews Dida (right) of Tom Mboya University that are resistant to striga weed in his practical garden at Maseno University on June 27,2016. (Photo: Denish Ochieng/ Standard)

A three-year-old child has died and another is fighting for her life after they ate poisonous cassava in Eshirembe village, Butere sub-county.

The surviving child, five-year-old Belinda Juma, is admitted at St Mary's Mission Hospital in Mumias.