A boy has been killed after picking up and eating a lollipop coated in rat poison that had been thrown into the yard where he was playing . Xiao Li , six , had found the sweet lying in the front yard of his house in Liuzhuang village in eastern China 's Shandong province when he picked it up , unwrapped it , and put it in his mouth . He then went out to play hide and seek with friends and was found shortly afterwards unconscious . Xiao Li , six , was killed after picking up and eating a lollipop coated in rat poison . Li ( circled ) was caught on CCTV eating the poisoned lolly before he played hide and seek . This is the spot where Li picked up the poisoned lolly . Deadly : This is the lolly that Li ate , reportedly . Tragically , the lolly was covered in a substance 100 times more toxic than cyanide . His pals ran to get help and found Li 's dad Jin Hsueh , 45 who discovered his son , still unconscious , was bleeding from his eyes , ears , nostrils and mouth . He said : 'They told me that Li was lying behind a bush where he had been hiding from them during a game . 'When I got there he was hardly breathing and I knew something terrible had happened . ' Li was rushed to the nearby Jining Affiliated Medical School Hospital , where medics quickly realised the condition was critical . Heartbreak : Li 's father found his son in a critical condition , bleeding from his eyes , ears , nostrils and mouth . The lolly that Li put in his mouth was covered in TETS , or tetramethylenedisulfotetramine . It 's an odorless and tasteless poison that 's fatal for humans in quantities of just 7 to 10mg and above . It is 100 times more toxic than cyanide and there is no known antidote . It was banned around the world in 1984 but still finds its way into China in rat poison , as it 's very easy to produce . A hospital spokesman said : 'His internal organs had been destroyed by the poison and his blood had turned black . ' Doctors fought to save him for two days before little Li succumbed to the poison and died . Tests carried out on the lollipop which the boy still had on him showed that it had been coated in TETS , a highly lethal neurotoxin found in rat poison . Its use worldwide has been banned since 1984 but is still readily available in China , although illegally . Now police suspect someone close to the family may have been responsible for his death . A police spokesman said : 'We have checked the location of where the lollipop was in the family 's yard and we found a couple more . 'The only way they could have got there is if someone walked in and put them there as it is impossible to reach from the road . 'And if they had been thrown over the wall , they would have broken . We are looking into who would have a motive to do this . '
Xiao Li found the sweet lying in the front yard of his house in Shandong . After licking it and playing hide and seek , he was found unconscious . His father found him bleeding from his eyes , ears , nostrils and mouth . Doctors said the lolly was covered in a neurotoxin that destroys organs .