Family die after making curry from poisonous wild mushrooms in Thailand

A family died after making a dodgy curry - from poisonous wild mushrooms.

Khamphan Thamniyom, 46, collected the deadly fungi from a forest to cook for lunch and dinner in Buriram, northeast Thailand, on July 9.

His mother, Khamchan Thamniyom, 66, added the mushrooms into a Tom Yum curry, which the family tucked into.

However, they were all rushed to a hospital after suffering severe stomach pain, diarrhoea and vomiting later that night.

Khamphan passed away on July 19, and his wife Samlee, 50, died on July 20. His father, Boon Thamniyom, 69, died on July 23.

Only Khamchan survived the food poisoning as she had consumed just a small portion of the curry.

The family's neighbor, Khamtan Charoenram, 80, said Khamphan had tried to share some of the mushrooms with her on July 9 but she declined, warning him instead that they were toxic.

She said: 'I warned him not to cook the mushrooms because I knew they were poisonous. He didn't listen to me, and now three of them are dead. I am speechless.'

Bizarrely, the sole survivor, Khamchan, said she was aware that the mushrooms were deadly, but carried on cooking them anyway.

She said: 'I only tasted the mushrooms, and I was hospitalised for two days. As for my son, even though he only ate them for dinner, he suffered the worst because he drank alcohol, which made the poison worse.'

Community leaders have warned villagers to be careful when eating mushrooms foraged from the wild.