The Ministry informed that it will deposit the request in the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of the National District, after it executed the arrest warrant.

This Ministry argued that the accused exposed and affected with toxic products Adelle Ruiz Leen and her two months old baby girl (both deceased), as well as her husband José Luis Acra, another son of both and the maid, all three hospitalized.

He reiterated that day the family went to the doctor when they presented vomiting due to an alleged food poisoning; after being treated they returned to their home and the following day they were admitted to the intensive care unit as an emergency.

The National Institute of Forensic Sciences indicated the day before that the results of the autopsies should be known this week.

Press media said on Sunday that the neighbors who had contracted the fumigation against a plague of termites left the property over the weekend.

According to experts, the apartment was disinfected with aluminum phosphide, an extremely toxic chemical compound, which spread to the affected family.

Listín Diario published that the Ministry of Agriculture banned as of Monday the importation of aluminum phosphide, after the tragedy of this weekend.

Regarding this event, the Dominican president, Luis Abinader, expressed “there have to be consequences for those responsible”. “This is an involuntary homicide, but there have to be consequences because a person who is not a fumigator was hired,” he reiterated.

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