More than a dozen members of the Utah National Guard were called to help with decontamination in North Logan after authorities say a 37-year-old woman tried to commit suicide there with highly toxic ricin, reports the Associated Press.
Police brought in a hazardous materials team that detected small amounts of ricin on a grinder, and they evacuated a family of four that was living upstairs from the woman’s basement apartment.
Ricin is derived from castor beans. Hawkes says the woman apparently ordered 60 castor beans online, ground them up and ate half of them.
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