(ANSA) - Udine, October 3 - Autopsies and further tests have
been ordered in the deaths of a 62-year-old Italian woman and
her 94-year-old father at Nova Milanese near Monza who are
believed to have been poisoned by the heavy metal thallium.
Doctors now think the thallium may have been contained in
food and water consumed at the family farm near Udine, rather
than being breathed in from pigeon droppings.
Thallium is used in rat poison and insecticides.
Patrizia Del Zotto and her father Battista Del Zotto are
believed to have died from it.
The woman and her father were initially thought to have
breathed in vapours from the bird excrement, causing their
deaths.
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