What the records say
- When
- 25 Jul 1998
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 4
- Coordinates
- 34.26° N, 135.19° E
- Description
- Mass murder in Wakayama, Japan in July 1998
- Injured
- 63
Wakayama curry-poisoning incident
1998 mass murder in Japan
The Wakayama curry-poisoning incident refers to a criminal poisoning case that occurred on 25 July 1998 at a matsuri summer celebration in Wakayama, Japan. A communal pot of curry was intentionally contaminated with lethal amounts of arsenic, leading to the hospitalization of 67 attendants, of whom four died.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Masumi Hayashi poisons a curry pot at a festival in Wakayama, causing the death of two adults and two children”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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