7 Aug 2023

Lethal lunch: Toxic mushrooms suspected as 3 dead in Australia

From Checkpoint, 5:52 pm on 7 August 2023

To Australia now; where a homicide investigation's underway following a lethal lunch where toxic wild mushrooms may have been served.

Three people are dead and another is fighting for their life in hospital after the shared meal in the small town of Korumburra in Victoria's South Gippsland.

Victorian Homicide Detective Inspector Dean Thomas, says police are liaising closely with medical specialists.

Police have confirmed the person who hosted the group and made the meal did not get sick.

They have searched a house and interviewed one person.