Japan - Arsenic, enough to kill 100, goes missing at Kyushu University

[makoto]

Arsenic, enough to kill 100, goes missing at Kyushu University

FUKUOKA (Kyodo) -- Kyushu University said early Thursday that a laboratory at its Biotron Institute lost a bottle containing about 15.06 grams of arsenic compound, enough to fatally poison up to 100 people......

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/natio...dm008000c.html

[makoto]

Re: Japan - Arsenic, enough to kill 100, goes missing at Kyushu University

Missing arsenic, enough to kill 100, found at Kyushu Univ.

FUKUOKA (Kyodo) -- Kyushu University said Friday it has found a bottle of arsenic compound, once thought to have been lost from a laboratory at its Biotron Institute, inside the lab's toxic substance safe......

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/natio...dm014000c.html

[makoto]

Re: Japan - Arsenic, enough to kill 100, goes missing at Kyushu University

Academic in missing arsenic fuss found dead in apparent suicide

FUKUOKA (Kyodo) -- A 47-year-old associate professor involved in a recent incident in which a bottle of arsenic compound was reported missing at Kyushu University was found dead in a parking lot in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, police said Tuesday......

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/natio...dm101000c.html

[Emily]

Re: Japan - Arsenic, enough to kill 100, goes missing at Kyushu University

That's very sad. The article says the bottle of arsenic was found after he died. He had just misplaced it.