MOSCOW, June 5 More than 100 liters of Mister Cider brand alcohol were confiscated in two stores in Izhevsk, where two cases of poisoning with low-quality alcohol were recorded, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported Russia in Udmurtia.
The duty unit from the medical institution received information about the hospitalization of a 20-year-old boy and a 34-year-old woman in the toxicology department of the City Clinical Hospital No. 6 of Izhevsk. Both patients with signs of toxic poisoning are in critical condition. According to the police, the day before they «could have drunk the dangerous beer drink» Mr. Cider. At present, over 100 liters of cider have been found and confiscated by the police in two stores in the capital of the Udmurt Republic,» the report says.
It is clarified that all regional departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs have been sent information on checking outlets selling similar products.
The number of victims of surrogate cider poisoning in the Ulyanovsk region has increased to 35 people, of which 16 people have died, Governor Alexei Russkikh said earlier . The investigation believes that people poisoned themselves with cider bought in the Territory of Beer stores, where the products were supplied from an entrepreneur from the Krasnoglinsky district of Samara.
The head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, after a massive alcohol poisoning, instructed the regional departments of the department to identify all the products of «Mr. Cider» and withdraw them from circulation.