Comoé: Woman dies after drinking pesticides

Ouagadougou: A woman died at the Health Promotion Center (CSPS) in Torokôrô, a village in the commune of Mangodara, Comoé province, after drinking pesticides and giving them to her 10-year-old son, who is still alive.According to sources, this woman, aged over fifty, warned her husband after a family meal that she had just eaten her last meal."This is my last meal like this, I will not eat with you again," she is said to have said.Witnesses on the scene believe that this is after she went to drink pesticides and give them to her 10-year-old child, without anyone noticing.Taken to the village CSPS, she did not survive. The child, however, was saved by health workers.Source: Burkina Information Agency