July 1, 2013: A 11-year-old Farah Ibrahim from Iraq is died due to heart failure following exposure to an illegal toxic pesticide poisoning in a Sharjah tower.
June 12, 2013: A 35-year-old Filipina died and her two female colleagues fell sick after reportedly inhaling pesticide fumes in their neighbour’s house in Fujairah.
June 1, 2013: Two girls 3-year-old and 8-month-old have died in Ajman and the cause of death is suspected to be inhalation of fumes from pesticides that were sprayed in a neighbour’s apartment.
September 23, 2012: Twelve Asian workers were rushed to al Qasimi and Al Kuwait hospitals from workers accommodation in Sharjah due to suspected pesticide poisoning
September 1, 2012: A two-year-old girl died after inhaling pesticide used in an adjacent flat in Sharjah. Her six-year-old brother is recovered from critical condition.
May 16, 2012: Ten people were hospitalized in a case of suspected pesticide poisoning in Dubai.
August 5, 2011: A 33-year-old Indian man died of pesticide poisoning in an apartment in Bur Dubai after the toxic fumes from the pesticide used in the neighbouring apartment wafted through the building’s central air-conditioning system and reached the victims’ apartment.
June 19, 2011: A 26-year-old man died in his sleep and his roommate hospitalised after a Bangladeshi allegedly used pesticide in Dubai.
June 5, 2010: An Indian woman, 23, and a Nepalese man, 28, died after inhaling the toxic gas phosphine in the pesticide that was sprayed at a workers’ accommodation in Abu Shagara, Sharjah.
March 27, 2010: Two infants died after inhaling pesticide fumes when the neighbour sprayed his apartment with pesticide in Ajman.
June 13, 2008: An Indian man, 23, died after inhaling pesticide used to fumigate his apartment in Abu Dhabi.
