According to the authorities, the deadly poisoning occurred in the Słancew region near St. Petersburg.
“According to preliminary data, the reason was illegal private production and sale of alcohol” from the street “. The results of medical examinations were transferred to law enforcement agencies,” we read in the authorities' statement.
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The administration of the Leningrad District emphasizes that the number of victims may still increase, because another person in a critical state is fighting in the hospital for life. On Friday late afternoon, the prosecutor's office of the Leningrad District confirmed that She initiated criminal proceedings regarding the inadvertent causal of death.
In recent years, several cases of mass poisoning of unknown origin have been reported in Russia. Usually, the reason was to add methyl alcohol to drinks. The most tragic was the poisoning in the Samarski District in June 2023, when 50 people lost their livesas well as in the autumn of 2016 in the Irkutsk region. There, after drinking contaminated alcohol, 76 people died.
