A Miteravian Among the Dead in Sarin Attack in East Moreland
A horrific series of Sarin attacks have been carried out in East Moreland, Lodja, Nya Aland and Ui Cenneslaig, it is currently being treated as terror related. The total death toll is currently reported at 62, including one Miteravian citizen. 201 are currently hospitalised in conjunction with the four attacks. All four attacks have been claimed by the so-called Kingdom of Borland, a separatist movement inside East Moreland, who have issued a chilling threat of another series of attacks that can only be subverted if the international community of Mundus bows to their demands which include: the release of four individuals linked to the Kingdom of Borland, secession from East Moreland and admittance to the Alba Karinya Organisation and the CETO. The Miteravia delegation to the CETO has voted to reject the Borelander application.
Reports from local sources say the chemical weapon was deployed via small mobile devices however details of the deployment are currently hazy at best as very few of those affect by the substance are yet conscious, none were available for a quote. The 24-year-old Miteravian man who was killed in East Moreland has not been named due to privacy concerns raised by his family after they were informed; we are however able to reveal he was in East Moreland travelling at the time of his death.
The government has been consistent with its sentiment with both the President and his rival
Jakub Symanski MP both issuing statements condemning the attacks as 'acts of terror' and an 'abhorrent abuse of chemical weapons'. The Representatives to both the CETO and the Network of Republics have come out in opposition of the Kingdom of Boreland in one capacity or another.
Sarin as chemical weapon is banned from use in any capacity by the Uppsala Convention and its utilisation against civilians is even more highly frowned upon. Miteravia currently posses a small stockpile of Sarin gas along with other chemical weapons, which were produced in the 1950s by the Nationalist government, the stockpile is maintains amid safety concerns around effective disposal of the chemical compounds as such a branch of the IST maintains the containment of the chemical weapons. In response to these attacks the IST confirms it is mobilising Sarin antidotes and other treatments to all major hospitals in the event of an attack.
Concerns have now been raised as to whether Miteravia's hardline approach to opposing the Kingdom of Borland could result in attack on Miteravia or if a similar attack could be carried out by another enemy of the Miteravian state. Minister of the Interior, Dr David Schön has come out saying that an attack of this nature is 'highly unlikely on Miteravian soil' and that 'Miteravia posses the means to deal with such an incident should the worst happen'. One twitter pundit commented that 'you would think with all the Sarin that the Neužil dropped on people during the War, Miteravians would have evolved an immunity by now.'
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