Two women felt faint for a moment late last week after going to a public toilet in a residential area of Beijing's Haidian District due to an unknown odour inside.

Seeing the women fall to the ground outside the toilet, police were called in.

Although cops said they might have been poisoned by marsh gas, a worker who went there minutes earlier without detecting the strange odour suspected that someone may have poured unknown chemicals into the toilet.

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