Monday, December 26, 2016

The death toll from the "Hawthorn" in Irkutsk has grown to 77

Photo: Vladimir Smirnov / RIA Novosti
In Irkutsk, another man was the victim of a mass poisoning with methanol contained in concentrates for the bath. On Monday, 26 December told RIA Novosti in the regional Ministry of Health.


"Thus from methanol" Hawthorn "77 people died, 123 injured in all, in the hospitals in the treatment of patients are 16", - said the agency.

December 26, on the order of Rospotrebnadzor, the shelves of Russian stores have a month to remove all cosmetic tinctures, concentrates and liquid with more than 25 per cent ethyl alcohol content, with the exception of spirits, drugs and windshield fluid, writes kp.ru .

Earlier, on December 26 it reported that in the framework of a criminal investigation on the fact of mass poisoning in Irkutsk, detained 23 people. Five of them were taken into custody: the alleged organizer of the production of a surrogate and his assistants, who were seized during a search of 10 tons of methanol, and 6 tons of finished products.

The investigation is conducted in respect of the deputy head of Rospotrebnadzor Irkutsk Region Mikhail Luzhnova, which repeatedly asked to ban illegal concentrate implementation for "Hawthorn" baths.

Patients who are exposed to non-food tincture, began to arrive in Irkutsk hospital since Saturday, 17 December. The region has entered emergency mode. A criminal case under part 3 of Article 238 of the Criminal Code ( "production, storage, distribution of goods and products that do not meet safety requirements, on imprudence entailed death of two or more persons").

On the alleged causes of the mass poisoning told on the big annual press conference on 23 December, Russian President Vladimir Putin. "A number of foreign citizens of the state have organized work for the production of drugs for the treatment baths and alcohol use, which is not a poison, - he said. - But one of the workers decided to separately make. And, not knowing really what he was doing, he got industrial alcohol and used it. " | lenta.ru

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