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Birling Gap Beach: 150 Treated After Chemical 'Mist'

posted by martyb on Thursday August 31 2017, @10:05AM   
from the mist-dis-missed dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

About 150 people have been treated in hospital and hundreds more affected by an unknown gas which hit the East Sussex coast.

Birling Gap beach was evacuated on Sunday [August 27] after people reported breathing difficulties, stinging eyes and vomiting when a "mist" appeared.

Sussex Police said on Monday morning the gas cloud appeared to have cleared.

Agencies are investigating the cause and have not ruled out either on-shore or off-shore locations.

In the past, chemicals have drifted across from European industrial units, but Sussex Police said: "Weather models suggest that an onshore source in northern France is very unlikely."

The Coastguard said it was working with its French counterparts and looking into vessels that were in the area at the time.

East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service said it was "extremely unlikely" the substance involved was chlorine.

First it was a sonic attack on US diplomats in Cuba, now potentially a chemical attack on British beach goers. What gives?

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Original Submission

• Sonic attack on US diplomats in Cuba, Sonic attack on US diplomats in Cuba, (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday August 31 2017, @01:50PM (1 child)

  by c0lo (156) on Thursday August 31 2017, @01:50PM (#562116) Journal

  Who?

  CBS News has reported that one of the American envoys suffered mild traumatic brain injury with likely damage to the central nervous system. Most of the United States government employees reported headaches, dizziness and hearing loss, and at least six were flown to the University of Miami Hospital this year for diagnosis. One of the patients had a serious blood disorder.

  Why! That's consistent with a sonic screwdriver targeted attack. Or, perhaps... maybe... some (fungal? [aspergillus.org.uk]) ear infection? No, can't be, it must be a super-secret sonic weapon [livescience.com]:

  The strange symptoms emerged in the fall of 2016, when several employees at the U.S. embassy in Havana began complaining of physical symptoms. Many of the individuals were new to the embassy and some had to return to the United States because of the severity of their symptoms — the details of which have yet to be disclosed. An investigation by the U.S. government concluded that the symptoms could be attributed to a device that operated outside the audible hearing range and was used somewhere, possibly in their houses, Time magazine reported. Right now, there's no word on whether these devices were deliberately used. [Flying Saucers to Mind Control: 22 Declassified Military & CIA Secrets]

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• Re:Sonic attack on US diplomats in Cuba, (Score: 2) by VortexCortex on Friday September 01 2017, @12:23AM

  by VortexCortex (4067) on Friday September 01 2017, @12:23AM (#562353)

  That is not the Sonic you are looking for. [youtube.com]

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