Toxic Letters Sent To More Than Thirty US Officials.
According to Al Jazeera, a letter containing a strange substance was sent to the American authorities in the state of Kansas.
In this connection, it has been reported that more than 30 letters containing suspicious white powder have reached the representatives and officials of the state of Kansas.
According to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, no injuries were reported and as of late Friday afternoon, more than 30 letters containing the white powder had been sent to authorities and deputies. In this news, there are no details about the composition of the white powder.
Tom Day, director of Kansas Legal Administrative Services, confirmed the news, saying the Kansas State Patrol notified his office about the mailings, and that the letters contained a return address to either Kansas City or Topeka.
Tom Day added that the letters were sent to lawmakers at their homes and then turned over to the FBI.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the state fire marshal’s office, and local police and fire departments are also investigating the suspicious powder in the mail and the sender.
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach is among those who received the suspicious letter.
The exact details of this news have not yet been announced and some reports indicate that the number of letters sent to the authorities is much more than 30.
Sending poisonous letters to politicians in America is a matter of history, and in 2012, American officials announced that they sent a poisonous threatening letter to Barack Obama’s address. At the time, US officials said the letter was similar to threatening letters sent to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The US Secret Service, which protects the president’s life, said the letter had been intercepted and that it was being investigated by federal police (FBI) investigators.
In the poisonous letters that were sent to the mayor of New York, his support for the plan to tighten gun control in the United States was mentioned. The police announced that the initial test of this letter sent to Bloomberg indicated the presence of ricin poison. Raisin poison has a natural origin and is obtained from the castor plant, but its toxicity is a thousand times higher than cyanide poison.
Also in 2017, American officials announced that they are investigating the origin of two letters containing poisonous substances sent to senior military officials in the Pentagon, as well as another contaminated letter to the President of the United States. At the time, the US Secret Service issued a statement confirming the mailing of a suspicious package to President Trump. A Pentagon official told The Associated Press at the time that the letters had been turned over to the FBI for further investigation, though neither of the two tainted letters made it into the Defense Department building.
