Incident Date:
May 18, 2000
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Quebec, Quebec Canada
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Armed Assault
Weapon Type(s): Chemical
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: Yes
Target Information
1- Private Citizens & Property(Students)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 27 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "05/18/2000: Twenty-seven students at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada were injured from drinking coffee tainted with an arsenic. Several students began to notice symptoms of numbness in their limbs, vomiting, diarrhoea, fever, and blurred vision. By 05/24/2000, around 20-35 students complained of similar symptoms."
References: 1) GTD 1970-2012 data file
2) Monterey WMD Terrorism Database
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