Xiao Li found the lollipop outside his house (Picture: CEN)

A six-year-old boy has died after eating a lollipop coated in rat poison.

Xiao Li found the sweet lying in the front yard of his house in Liuzhuang village, eastern China’s Shandong province.

He went out to play hide and seek with friends and was found unconscious shortly after.

Li’s dad Jin Hsueh, 45, discovered his son bleeding from his eyes, ears, nostrils and mouth.


Li was rushed to the nearby Jining Affiliated Medical School Hospital.

The lollipop that was coated in poison (Picture: CEN)

A hospital spokesman said: ‘His internal organs had been destroyed by the poison and his blood had turned black.’

Doctors fought to save him for two days before little Li succumbed to the poison and died.



Tests carried out on the lollipop which the boy still had on him showed that it had been coated in TETS, a highly lethal neurotoxin found in rat poison.

It’s use worldwide has been banned since 1984 but is still readably available in China, although illegally.

The boy was sucking the lollipop while playing hide and seek (Picture: CEN)