CYANIDE ON STREET
Poison Drums Burst (Rec. 10.30 p.m.) LONDON. January 13 Drinking from wells and streams around the village of Ashby-Parva, Leicestershire, was still banned early today after yesterday’s discovery that enough potassium cyanide to kill 1,000.000 people had been dropped in the main street. Three drums of the poison fell off a passing lorry and one burst open. Police and villagers shovelled the deadly powder into roadside drains from which it ran into a stream flowing through eight farms
Firemen hosed thousands of gallons of water over the road A drain was blocked and the cyanide went sluicing through a farmyard. Experts arrived on the scene to warn that when cyanide gets wet, it gives off fatal prussic acid gas. Police cars broadcast urgent messages: “Don’t drink from wells. Tether your animals until further notice.”
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29102, 14 January 1960, Page 9
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