Residents in Quebec town wary after blood filled syringes found in clothes

加拿大一般市民, 尤其是患有购物狂者請留意, 在魁北克省 Sherbrooke 的幾間百貨商店, 發現有人在一些出售衣物的衭袋內, 放置了充滿血液的注射器,  至令有顧客在試穿時, 被針刺傷。經過化驗分析, 全部人體血液,   都是來自同一人。至於有無人因而患病, 警方不能証實, 但希望市民能高度提高警覺。 

SHERBROOKE, QUE.—Shoppers in Sherbrooke, Que., are being urged to be careful when they try on clothing in local stores because they could be jabbed by a blood-filled syringe.

Local police say that, since January, eight people have been pricked by syringes placed inside pant pockets — mostly in stores in one of Sherbrooke’s big shopping centres.

Twenty syringes have been found in all.

SHERBROOKE, QUE.—Shoppers in Sherbrooke, Que., are being urged to be careful when they try on clothing in local stores because they could be jabbed by a blood-filled syringe.

Local police say that, since January, eight people have been pricked by syringes placed inside pant pockets — mostly in stores in one of Sherbrooke’s big shopping centres.

Twenty syringes have been found in all.

Two blood-filled needles were found this past weekend in two stores, including a Zellers outlet.

One of the syringes was inside the pockets of a pair of Bermuda shorts for children.

“They usually are found in the pockets of pants, they were found in jeans, Bermudas (and) not just in men’s pants,” Const. Rene Dubreuil said. “It’s a bit of everything.”

The Sherbrooke police spokesman says all of the 20 syringes contained blood and that tests conducted on the first three to be analyzed reveal they contained human blood from the same person.

He would not say whether the blood was contaminated.