Number of Surgut residents poisoned with psychotropic substance grows to 180
KHANTY-MANSIYSK. Sept 29 (Interfax) - The number of people poisoned with unknown psychotropic substances keeps growing in the Surgut city and district of the Khanty-Mansi autonomous region, a spokesman for the Khanty-Mansi regional prosecution service told Interfax on Monday.
"The number of poisoned persons has grown to 180, seven of them are dead," the source said, without mentioning how many persons had been hospitalized.
A laboratory is still testing the substances which might have caused the poisoning.
It was reported on September 25 that 100 persons had been poisoned and 36 of them had been taken to a hospital.
The first patients demonstrating behavioral disorder symptoms asked for medical attendance on September 18. It appeared the behavioral disorders started after the patients had used an unknown psychoactive substance they bought online. The police have found the website where the substance was sold and started the search for the traders. The prosecution service is holding an inquiry.
A criminal case was opened under item C, part 3, article 238 of the Russian Criminal Code "The selling of goods and products that do not meet safety standards and cause human death by negligence."
