Mushroom mystery: family lunch leaves Australian town reeling after three deaths in suspected poisoning

Suspected mushroom poisoning deaths: flowers are left outside the Korumburra Baptist church in memory of those who died n Victoria, Australia. Photograph: Cait Kelly

In the quiet town of Leongatha in eastern Victoria, a group of family and friends sat down to a Saturday lunch at one of their homes.

Within hours of the meal four of the guests began feeling very unwell and eventually sought treatment at local hospitals.