Zimbabwe Truck Driver Realizes He Delivered Poison to Water Plant
Disaster averted
An alert truck driver sent to deliver 19 tonnes of poisonous sodium cyanide to Harare's main waterworks averted disaster last Wednesday when he raised alarm just when he was about to offload the chemical.
The driver told workers at Morton Jaffray Water Treatment Plant that he suspected he was carrying a poisonous chemical.
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Sources close to the matter said over 19 tonnes of the deadly chemical were being delivered through a local delivery company (name supplied).
That's an odd name for a delivery company.