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Title    Birling Gap Beach: 150 Treated After Chemical 'Mist'
Date    Thursday August 31 2017, @10:05AM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the mist-dis-missed dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/08/31/0242206

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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  1. "Phoenix666" - https://soylentnews.org/~Phoenix666/
  2. "About 150 people have been treated in hospital and hundreds more affected by an unknown gas which hit the East Sussex coast" - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-41070002
  3. "evacuated on Sunday [August 27]" - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-41069085
  4. "a sonic attack on US diplomats in Cuba" - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/us/politics/health-attack-us-embassy-havana.html?mcubz=0
  5. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=22011

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