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Poisoned Americans Go Home from Moscow
Two American women of Russian origin were released from Sklifosovsky Institute, a leading Moscow hospital, at 9:30 a.m. on March 7 and left Moscow for the United States at 2:30 p.m. the same day, Interfax information agency report, citing hospital sources. The women were suspected to have thallium poisoning, although that has not been confirmed by the U.S. embassy in Moscow, although the embassy press service stated that Marina and Yana Kovalevskaya (previous identified as Maria and Yana Kovalevskaya) had been hospitalized with “possible thallium poisoning.”
Russian law enforcement has turned over the material from its investigation of the case to the FBI at the U.S. embassy.
It was reported earlier that the women, who were hospitalized on February 24, were diagnosed with thallium poisoning on February 28 and administered the antidote for it. Their conditions were described as of “medium” seriousness. No other information on their health has become available.
Some evidence points to robbery as the motive for the poisoning of the mother and daughter, since “certain valuables” of theirs have disappeared. No investigation has been started of that information yet, however.
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