Passengers sick after 'substance' released on subway
A US underground station was closed after several people reported sick following a scuffle between a police officer and a man in which a jar with an unknown substance fell on to a platform.
Firefighters in protective rubber suits responded at the station in Washington DC after several people reported being sick.
Mark Brady, a Prince George’s County Maryland Fire Department spokesman, said a man dispensed some type of product in the subway station.
"That product made people on the train sick, with dry throats and nausea," he said. About 15 people were isolated.
Officials who run the Metro subway system said a scuffle broke out between a transit officer and man on a train after the passenger pulled a knife and gun.
The train stopped at the Southern Avenue station on the Green Line and the fight continued on to the platform.
Transit police took the man into custody. Officials said the officer and the armed man were not injured.
