Poverty Forces Afghan Family to Eat Poisonous Food

(Quqnoos)-Doctors at the provincial hospital in Herat Province said the family was poisoned in Naqi Abad District of the province after consuming toxic mushrooms to battle starving.
Two kids were died instantly after eating the mushrooms, a doctor said, adding other five passed away after receiving first aid in the hospital and traveling to Pakistan seeking better health service.
“Four women, two kids and a man, all from one family who had eaten mushrooms due to poverty, passed away,” Sayed Naeem Alimi, head of Herat Hospital said.
Herat governor, Mohammad Yousuf Nuristani, expressing his grief said ‘extreme poverty’ has even drawn people to eating poisonous foods.
Governor Nooristani said the survivors of the family will receive support.
Some residents of Herat province have turned to digest self-grown shrubs found in the mountains due to the increasing poverty provoked by unemployment.