3 sailors die of suspected food poisoning in Channel

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http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/so...ord-d-un-petrolier-dans-la-manche_854138.html

Three sailors died on a tanker in the Channel
Par LEXPRESS.fr avec Reuters, publié le 10/03/2010 à 09:53 - mis à jour le 10/03/2010 à 09:58 By LEXPRESS.fr with Reuters, published on 10.03.2010 at 09:53 - updated on 10/03/2010 at 09:58

Leur mort serait due à une intoxication alimentaire liée à l'absorption de produits frelatés. Their death is due to food poisoning related to the absorption of adulterated products.

Trois marins sont morts à bord d'un pétrolier qui naviguait au large du Havre, apparemment victimes d'une intoxication alimentaire, at-on appris mercredi auprès de la préfecture maritime de la Manche et de la mer du Nord. Three sailors died aboard an oil tanker sailing off Le Havre, apparently victims of food poisoning, it was learned Wednesday from the maritime prefecture of the Channel and North Sea...

 

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http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=346437&cid=8

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All the dead sailors, most likely, the citizens of Russia.

Экипаж судна - 20 человек, смешанный русско-филиппинский. The crew of the ship - 20 people, a mixed Russian-Filipino. Скорее всего, российские моряки отравились некачественным спиртным, сообщает "Интерфакс" со ссылкой на интернет-издание "Морской бюллетень". Most likely, Russia's sailors were poisoned low-quality alcohol...

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http://www.gazeta.ru/news/lenta/2010/03/10/n_1467926.shtml

According to preliminary information, the sailors were poisoned low-quality alcohol

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http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?p=310296

See this thread for a previous similar incident occurring in South Africa.

 

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Re: 3 sailors die of suspected food poisoning in Channel

http://www.gazeta.ru/news/lenta/2010/03/10/n_1468088.shtml

French Gendarmerie has not confirmed the Embassy of Russia in Paris that killed on the tanker Arionas in La Manche sailors were Russia's citizens.

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According to the captain of the ship, the sailors were poisoned low-quality alcohol.

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http://www.utro.ru/articles/2010/03/10/879312.shtml

According to the company, one seaman died on Tuesday, while two others - on Wednesday.

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Earlier media reports referring to the captain of the tanker that the sailors had died from food poisoning, most likely, alcohol.

 

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http://www.baltinfo.ru/news/Prichin...moryakov-vyyasnyaet-politciya-Frantcii-133855

According to the Department of Information Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, among the dead - a resident of Astrakhan, Vladimir Fedorov was born in 1963, a resident of the Krasnodar Territory Denis Mihaylichenko1980 year of birth and a resident of the Rostov oblast Victor Porubay born in 1976.

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It is known that the Russians have died from food poisoning.

 

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Re: 3 sailors die of suspected food poisoning in Channel

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breaki...ailors-died-from-drinking-adulterated-alcohol

Three Russian sailors found dead aboard their oil tanker passing through the Channel were poisoned by adulterated alcohol, a French prosecutor said Friday.

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The adulterated drink could have contained methyl alcohol, he said, which could kill with just half a glass.

While the empty bottle was found by authorities it was not clear in which port the sailors aboard the Marshall Islands-registered ship may have purchased the alcohol

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http://www.paris-normandie.fr/index.php/cms/13/article/323749/Tues_par_de_l_alcool_frelate

And autopsies, performed as early as Thursday morning, found that the trio had ingested alcohol containing a fatal dose of methanol. Les premiers résultats des expertises toxicologiques le confirment. The first results confirm the toxicological expertise. Un demi-verre suffisait à tuer un homme. A half-glass was enough to kill a man. « Ils en ont sans doute consommé beaucoup plus », dit le parquet du Havre . "They have probably consumed more