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Filipino food influencer dies after eating ‘devil crab’

(Photos: Emma Amit Facebook, iNaturalist)

A Filipino woman who gained online fame for videos of her unusual eating habits has died after consuming a highly poisonous “devil crab” for a social media video.

Emma Amit, 51, and several friends went to collect seafood from a mangrove forest near their home on the island of Palawan in the Philippines, on Feb 4. They then brought the shellfish home to cook for a video on Facebook and Tiktok.

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