The woman who baked the cake, along with a 10-year-old child who also ate the cake, remain in the hospital and are receiving treatment for poisoning.

Police in Brazil have officially launched a homicide probe into the deaths of three people after they ate Christmas cake that is believed to have been laced with arsenic.

Three family members are dead, and three others were hospitalized after eating homemade Christmas cake — months after the baker’s husband died from food poisoning. The fatalities included Tatiana Denize Silva dos Anjos,

Tatiana Denize Silva dos Anjos, 43, and Maida Berenice Flores da Silva, 58, died on the same day after eating the dessert. Neuza Denize Silva dos Anjo, 65, was rushed to the hospital in critical condi