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Two inmates are preventing for all times with no less than 15 extra in poor health in a mass poisoning incident at a UK jail.

Emergency companies have been referred to as to the scene at HMP Lewes after the alarm was raised at round noon. Home to some 692 inmates, the jail was put into lockdown as two individuals had been rushed to hospital in a “life-threatening condition”.

A spokesperson for South East Coast Ambulance Service stated: “We can confirm we are attending an incident at HMP Lewes reported to us at approximately midday today, March 28.”

A inexperienced contamination tent was erected exterior Eastbourne hospital the place the inmates had been taken for therapy. An indication exterior learn that the hospital was closed resulting from a “major incident”.

Express.co.uk has contacted the emergency companies and His Majesty’s Prison Service for remark.

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