Tragedy struck a Brazilian family after they shared a traditional Christmas cake found to be laced with arsenic, leaving three family members dead and sending three others to the hospital.
The Bolo de Natal cake—a homemade cake often prepared for Christmas in Brazil—was determined to be laced with arsenic following the Dec. 23 deaths of Tatiana Denize Silva dos Anjos, 43, Maida Berenice Flores da Silva, 58 and Neuza Denize Silva dos Anjos, 65, The Independent reported. The women succumbed to poisoning, according to hospital reports, with two suffering cardiac arrests and another dying of "shock after poisoning."
