Toronto, February 05: Toronto police are looking for a young man who has been searching for potassium cyanide.
Police say the man visited the University of Toronto’s Scarborough campus on two separate occasions asking for the chemical.
On Nov. 15 the man entered the Sciences and Research building just after 1 p.m. and asked for the cyanide, which is described as toxic by Health Canada.
The man fled before police arrived.
On Jan. 10 around noon, the same man approached a professor in the Sciences and Research building asking for the chemical.
The professor told him he did not have any, and the man left the building.
Police say the man may be in his late teens or early 20s. He is 5-feet-8-inches and around 134 lbs., and thin with short black hair. He was wearing a black winter jacket with a red/white vertical swoosh.
Single oral doses of 50 to 200 mg cyanide have killed humans in the past, according to Health Canada. Commercial applications of cyanide include extraction of gold and silver and the manufacture of dyes and pigments.
–Agencies–