Overview
- Police say a 50-year-old DHL delivery worker reported symptoms that suggested poisoning and that a suspected hazardous substance was found on or in a parcel handled by her.
- The Leizen sorting center was evacuated and operations halted as specialist fire and hazmat teams from the region worked at the site.
- The affected worker is receiving medical treatment and investigators say she may have contacted a liquid during deliveries last Friday.
- Authorities are checking for a connection to a confirmed mercury discovery in a parcel in Neustadt-Glewe over the weekend that led to two people being treated.
- Officials stress that laboratory and forensic confirmation of the Leizen substance is pending and that mercury vapors can cause long-term harm, so the site remains closed while tests continue.