Beijing - Two brothers were arrested in a scandal over contaminated baby milk in China, as a second infant died, state-run media said Monday.
At least 430 babies fell ill with kidney stones and two died after being fed with contaminated baby milk produced by the Chinese dairy San Lu.
The brothers, who are among 19 suspects detained in the wake of the scandal, are accused of having delivered 3 tons of toxic milk per day to San Lu from their private milk collecting station, the Xinhua news agency said.
The older brother confessed to having spiked the milk with the banned chemical melamine to increase the milk's protein content. He said he lost money because San Lu repeatedly rejected his milk because of quality problems.