Sydney, Oct. 17 -- Five people have been hospitalised after being exposed to an unidentified chemical at two post offices in the northeastern Australian state of Queensland on Friday.
Emergency services were called to reports of fumes and an odor at an Australia Post location in the rural town of Charters Towers, over 1,000 km northwest of Brisbane, shortly after 6:30 a.m. on Friday.
Four people were treated at the scene by ambulance paramedics before being taken to hospital in stable conditions.
A short time later, paramedics were sent to reports of an unknown fluid leaking from a package at a second Australia Post location in the city of Townsville, 105 km north of Charters Towers.
The Townsville location was evacuated, and one person...