Three women died and three other relatives fell ill after eating the cake during a family get-together on December 23, officials said.

An arrest has been made in the case of a family in Brazil who were poisoned on Christmas Eve after eating a cake containing arsenic.

The daughter-in-law of the woman who prepared a Christmas cake in Brazil that killed three people has reportedly been arrested on suspicion of triple homicide and triple attempted homicide

A woman has been arrested in connection with a Christmas cake that allegedly killed three people and hospitalized three others in Brazil, multiple media outlets reported. On Sunday, police arrested Deise Moura dos Anjos,

In Porto Alegre, Brazil, a woman suspected of murdering three relatives and attempting to kill three more was arrested. Deise Moura added arsenic to a Christmas cake. The woman was detained at her home in Rio Grande do Sul.

A woman in Brazil fed her family an arsenic-laced Christmas cake, killing three female relatives and hospitalizing three others, cops say. The identity of the woman — who was charged with triple homicide — was not announced by police,