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Poison 'medicine' mailed by 15-year-old girl

Police report Sept. 8 that a 15-year-old junior high school girl has confessed to mailing bottles containing fake diet medicine to 26 students and one female teacher at her school in Tokyo's Minato Ward in late August. The picture shows the 20-30 milliliter plastic bottle that contained the brown liquid, which was actually the disinfectant cresol.

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Poison 'medicine' sample mailed

A junior high school student in Tokyo falls ill Aug. 26 after trying a ''diet medicine'' sent to him in the mail that was later found to be poison. Twenty-two other students and a teacher received similar packages, and police have begun investigating the case. The picture shows the 20-30 milliliter plastic bottle that contained the brown liquid, which was actually the disinfectant cresol.

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Poison 'medicine' sample mailed

A junior high school student in Tokyo falls ill Aug. 26 after trying a ''diet medicine'' sent to him in the mail that was later found to be poison. Twenty-two other students and a teacher received similar packages, and police have begun investigating the case. The picture shows the 20-30 milliliter plastic bottle that contained the brown liquid, which was actually the disinfectant cresol.