**China has executed two people for their role in a scandal involving tainted milk powder that resulted in six children dying, officials have said.**More than 300,000 other infants were made ill from milk powder contaminated with melamine, an industrial chemical.
Zhang Yujun and Geng Jinping were the only people to have been executed over the scandal, court officials said.
Nineteen other people were sentenced to prison terms for their roles in the scandal.
Zhang Yujun was convicted of producing and selling more than 770 tonnes of the tainted milk powder from July 2007 to August 2008, the official Xinhua news agency said.
Geng Jinping, who managed a milk production centre, was convicted of supplying milk containing melamine to dairies.
Melamine is used in the making of plastics and fertilisers. It gives an apparent high protein level when added to food products but can cause kidney stones and kidney failure.