Over 120 in Kirov region suspected of poisoning with smoking mixture ingredient - admin
KIROV, Russia. Oct 3 (Interfax) - Fifty more people sought medical assistance in the Kirov region between September 29 and October 2 for what suspected poisoning with an unidentified smoking mixture ingredient in addition to dozens of people who had shown similar symptoms earlier on, according to the regional administration.
An unidentified psychedelic substance that is suspected of having been a smoking mixture ingredient is blamed for five fatal poisonings in Kirov region. Altogether 126 people, among them 41 teenagers, were hospitalized between September 17 and October 2 with symptoms of poisoning with the same substance, the regional administration has.
"From the 50 people who sought medical assistance from September 29 to October 2 and had poisoning symptoms, 20, including six teenagers, were hospitalized," Yelena Sysolyatina, deputy head of the regional internal and information policy department, told Interfax on Friday.
She said that, of the 126 hospitalized since September 17, seven, including one teenager, remained in the hospital. "There have been no deaths at the medical institutions," Sysolyatina said.
Earlier, the head of the regional branch of the Federal Drug Control Service, Vadim Konovalov, had told Interfax that two mutually independent criminal businesses had been put out of existence that had been selling smoking mixtures suspected of causing the poisonings. Each business brought together two individuals.
