Border services officers taken to hospital after mysterious powder found

RICHMOND (NEWS 1130) – Two Canada Border Services Agency officers have been taken to the hospital as a precaution, after a mysterious powder was found inside a package at the processing plant near the airport.

Deputy Fire Chief Tim Wilkinson says Richmond Fire got a call of a broken package just after 2:00 p.m.

“Some people actually were contaminated with this powder and started to exhibit some medical symptoms” he says.

Those symptoms include a racing heart and chest pains, but at this point, hazmat investigators don’t know what the powder is. They know it’s not a narcotic like fentanyl or a biohazard like anthrax.

Another 12 workers who may have been contaminated have been isolated and are being monitored.

The package was found in the international arrival section of the facility, so Canadian Border Services is involved in the investigation.

The building was partially evacuated.

 

 

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