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.

Deise Moura dos Anjos released a statement via her lawyers stating there was a "causal link between the poison and Deise" but questioning how arsenic ended up at her home in Brazil

A woman in Brazil fed her family an arsenic-laced Christmas cake, killing three female relatives and hospitalizing three others, cops say.

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.

New details have emerged on how three members of the same family died after eating a poisoned Christmas cake - detectives say one ingredient was found to have been laced with arsenic

The woman who baked the cake, along with a 10-year-old child who also ate the cake, remain in the hospital and are receiving treatment for poisoning.

Investigators are working on the hypothesis that the food was poisoned and have seized the cake for forensic examination, according to CNN Brasil.

A New Year's Day meal turned into a harrowing tragedy in Brazil after rat poison was discovered in the food, leading to the deaths of three family members: one-year-old Igno Davi da Silva, his 18-year-old uncle Manoel,

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