Two young brothers suffer 'acid burns' in bus
Published: 2013 September 22 14:24:53 (4506 Views)
Two young brothers suffered burns Saturday on a city bus in Queens after a toxic cleaning agent ate through a fellow rider's bag and dripped onto them, police sources said.
The boys, ages 5 and 8, were sitting on the floor of the Q53 bus at Woodhaven Blvd. and Metropolitan Ave. in Forest Hills when the caustic drain cleaner leaked onto their legs and buttocks, police sources said.
The man carrying the chemicals was identified as Ivan Ivanov, a 32-year-old Kennedy Airport worker who was transporting cleaning supplies from his job to his home.
Ivanov, of Queens, was charged with reckless endangerment following the 5:30 p.m. incident aboard the bus, a police source said.
Ivanov, who was transporting the harmful liquid in a flimsy plastic bottle, had placed his backpack onto the bus floor.
Minutes later, the chemical ate through the bottle and then his bag — and dribbled onto the boys, the source said.
"Early reports have it as some sort of acid, but it hasn't been tested," an FDNY source said in the hours after authorities arrived on the scene.
Both victims were taken to the burn unit at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell, authorities said.
The unidentified children had minor injuries, said an FDNY spokesman.
Scattered nearby as authorities checked out the bus were a black backpack and several apparently burned items, including a laptop computer and two plastic bottles. There was also a sheath of papers and a black cord.
NYPD and FDNY Hazmat units were on the scene decontaminating the bus.
Ivanov, dressed in blue jeans and a white polo shirt with red smears on it, was handcuffed at the scene.
He was overheard telling a cop he didn't know what kind of substance he was transporting.
- NYDaily
The boys, ages 5 and 8, were sitting on the floor of the Q53 bus at Woodhaven Blvd. and Metropolitan Ave. in Forest Hills when the caustic drain cleaner leaked onto their legs and buttocks, police sources said.
The man carrying the chemicals was identified as Ivan Ivanov, a 32-year-old Kennedy Airport worker who was transporting cleaning supplies from his job to his home.
Ivanov, of Queens, was charged with reckless endangerment following the 5:30 p.m. incident aboard the bus, a police source said.
Ivanov, who was transporting the harmful liquid in a flimsy plastic bottle, had placed his backpack onto the bus floor.
Minutes later, the chemical ate through the bottle and then his bag — and dribbled onto the boys, the source said.
"Early reports have it as some sort of acid, but it hasn't been tested," an FDNY source said in the hours after authorities arrived on the scene.
Both victims were taken to the burn unit at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell, authorities said.
The unidentified children had minor injuries, said an FDNY spokesman.
Scattered nearby as authorities checked out the bus were a black backpack and several apparently burned items, including a laptop computer and two plastic bottles. There was also a sheath of papers and a black cord.
NYPD and FDNY Hazmat units were on the scene decontaminating the bus.
Ivanov, dressed in blue jeans and a white polo shirt with red smears on it, was handcuffed at the scene.
He was overheard telling a cop he didn't know what kind of substance he was transporting.
- NYDaily
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