| Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Wednesday, November 14, 2001 |
Letter to Yeltsin Found Containing White Powder in Irkutsk |
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Russian postal workers in Irkutsk, Siberia, have intercepted and sent to the sanitation service a letter to former President Boris Yeltsin that contained suspicious white powder.
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Russian postal workers in Irkutsk, Siberia, have intercepted and sent to the sanitation service a letter to former President Boris Yeltsin that contained suspicious white powder.
Interfax on Wednesday quoted local sanitation service as sayingthat the address of a local skin and venereal disease outpatient clinic was stated as the return address.
The white powder was placed in a plastic bag and there was no accompanying note in the envelope, it said. Sanitation doctors found it hard to tell by appearance what thesubstance might be, but it is definitely not a detergent or starch. The sanitation service center has examined 15 letters containing white powder that proved to be powder sugar, flour or starch in recent months, said Interfax.
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