Eleven taken to hospital in Polish anthrax scare
PR dla Zagranicy
Victoria Bieniek
21.03.2017 14:01
Eleven people have been taken to hospital for observation following an anthrax scare at a district court in Koszalin, northwestern Poland, public broadcaster TVP has reported.
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The 11 were taken to hospital and 180 were evacuated after a suspicious package was delivered to the court on Tuesday, TVP reported.
Two cards were found with a warning that an envelope with powder inside contained Anthrax bacteria, and that explosives had been planted in the court building, the IAR news agency reported.
According to a fire department spokesman, four firefighting teams and a chemical and ecological rescue team are at the scene, TVP said.
“We received information from a court employee that a package was opened, containing a suspicious substance and information from the package that the substance was most likely anthrax,” the spokesman told TVP.
(vb/pk)
Source: TVP/IAR