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A local mayor in Australia felt compelled to remind people gripped by the curious case of three people apparently poisoned by a mushroom lunch that this isn’t the plot of some quaint TV show.
“It’s not Midsomer Murders,” South Gipplsand Mayor Nathan Hersey told Australia’s 9News as the incident generated headlines the world over. “This is Korumburra. This is real people’s lives.”
Also, he might have added, this is about real people’s deaths. Three passed away—and one is in critical condition—after eating a contaminated version of the classic beef wellington dish. It is feared that some of the mushrooms concealed within the puff pastry case were deadly death caps.