The karting centre in Belgium there was a mass poisoning of people with carbon monoxide
Moscow. 12 Feb. INTERFAX.RU — IN the Belgian city of Mons Saturday night enacted a local contingency plan in connection with a poisoning with exhaust gases of about 50 people at a local karting center.
“As a result of many poisonings with CO gas (carbon monoxide — if) that took place in the new karting Vavra, the municipality declares an emergency plan municipal scale. Rescuers work at the site. Victim assistance”, — stated in the communique of the authorities of Wavre, which quoted the Belgian media.
Reportedly, failed ventilation designed to remove exhaust gases. The audience in the pavilion of inhaled carbon monoxide. About a dozen people suffered serious poisoning. In the hospital Vavra created a crisis center. Media have reported several teams of rescuers, medics and police arrived on the scene.
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