In the absence of alcoholic drinks, hand sanitiser has become a dangerous substitute. — Reuters pic
A statement published by Russian investigators on Saturday said a group of nine locals fell violently ill in the village of Tomtor after consuming diluted hand sanitiser that they had purchased at a local shop. Tests of its contents revealed that it contained 69 per centmethanol, an industrial non-drinking type of alcohol.
Doctors are currently fighting to save the lives of the remaining two—a 48-year-old woman and a 32-year-old man, both of whom are in a coma and on ventilators, health authorities said today. A criminal case has been launched over the “infliction of death by negligence”. In 2016, more than 100 people were poisoned in Siberia’s Irkutsk region after consuming a hawthorn-infused bath lotion, and 78 of them died.
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