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Six Russians killed after drinking antifreeze
Nov 10, 2011, 9:53 GMT
Moscow - Six Russians died and two were in hospital after drinking antifreeze at a party, the Interfax news agency reported on Thursday.
The victims were construction workers stationed at the remote railroad way station of Mostotryad in Russia's eastern Yakutia province, 5,000 kilometres east of the capital Moscow.
One man died almost immediately after drinking the chemical, which is normally used to maintain a constant temperature in automobile engines.
Five more died during an evacuation to the closest site of qualified medical assistance, the Amur province village of Verknyezeysk, said Aleksei Khybov, a spokesman for the Emergency Situations Ministry.
Mostotryad is a checkpoint on a railroad being built to the Elginskoe coal field, an untapped energy reserve thought to contain as much as 30 billion tons of industrial-quality coal.
The Kremlin in recent years has made economic development of the country's remote Far Eastern districts a top government priority. Working conditions are often primitive, especially at wilderness construction sites.
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