POISON LETTERS CAUSES MAIL ALERT IN WASHINGTON (466 hits)
YOUR NATIONAL NEWS April 2013 Day 17 Washington, D.C.
A routine mail delivery showed positive for a deadly poison called Ricin. Two envelopes has surfed from April 16, and April 17, 2013 mail delivery. Sources of news indicated that both letters had deadly traces of the poison. On Tuesday an envelope arrived for Senator Roger Wicker Republican of Mississippi after field tests proved positive for the deadly powder. On Wednesday, another letter addressed to President Barak Obama arrived with the containments of the same poison.
Both letters were said to originated from a bulk city in Memphis, Tennessee. However, it is a regional bulk which means the letter could of been mailed from any surrounding region around the service bulk center's area. There hasn't been any clues on who sent the letters, but it is speculated that the sender is a regular writer to Senate and Government officials. Since the letters are among two discovered alert of the postage delivers have been devised.
Ricin is considered extremely lethal and causes damages to internal organs once it's absorbed by the pores of the skin. Since the poison is lethal there is no antidote to cure its' victims. Ricin is a highly toxic substance derived from castor beans. Death from for the substance can occur in a time period of 4 days. Last scare of poison letters occurred in 2004 and in 2011.
