Recently evacuated Afghan boy dies after eating poisonous mushroom around refugee centre in Poland

Doctors said the parents are at hospital, under psychological care. The boy’s brother underwent a liver transplant but the damage to his brain was significant and life-threatening.

Doctors at Poland’s main children’s hospital said on Thursday a 5-year-old Afghan boy, recently evacuated from Kabul, has died and his 6-year-old brother, who has undergone a liver transplant, remains in life-threatening condition after they ate poisonous mushrooms. The boys and their older sister were hospitalised last week. The family picked and ate highly poisonous death cap mushrooms in the forest around the refugee centre where they were staying in Podkowa Lesna, near Warsaw. Doctors at the Center for Children’s Health Institute in Warsaw said the older brother successfully underwent a liver transplant but that the damage to his brain was significant and life-threatening.