Jul 29 2004 3:12PM TULA. July 28 (Interfax-Center) - Between July 23 and 28, 63 people, 34 of them children aged 18 months to 14 years, have been hospitalized acute severe intestinal infections in Novomoskovsk, Tula region, Interfax was told at the regional emergency situations authorities on Thursday.
Earlier the region's chief sanitation doctor, Lidia Shishkina, told Interfax water is believed to have caused the poisoning.
The emergency situations authorities, the prosecution service and law enforcers have been alerted and Russia's chief sanitation doctor, Gennady Onishchenko, has been notified, Shishkina said.
Several possible scenarios behind the incident are being investigated, including terrorism.
POSTED: 8:13 am EDT July 29, 2004 MIAMI -- Police found a missing truck trailer Wednesday, but the hazardous chemicals that were reportedly inside are still missing.
Officers said they found the trailer at 216th Street and Southwest 167th Avenue after a passerby called police. It had reportedly been painted black and was empty.
The manifest of the trailer indicated it had been packed with 1,000 pounds of caustic chemicals and corrosive liquids, police said earlier this week when the trailer was stolen from the side of the Florida Turnpike near Okeechobee Road. The driver left the trailer there while he delivered another trailer, police said.
After it was taken, Detective Robert Williams said the thief likely did not know what was inside. Williams also said he didn't believe the chemicals could be made into a bomb.
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Thanks for that article. I went to Tulsa last month
and when I got back I had a very bad stomache virus.