Five Poisoned by Mushrooms in Bulgarian Town

Politics | November 3, 2008, Monday // 00:00

Five people from the southern Bulgarian town of Kjustendil are in critical condition after eating poisonous mushrooms. The four men and a woman are currently in hospitals in the capital Sofia, where doctors are struggling to save their lives. There is no information yet about the kind of mushrooms the people ate. According to witnesses, the victims picked the mushrooms in the nearby forests and a local gatherer told them they were edible.

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