Several people at a U.S. military base fall ill after suspicious package with white powder opened: report

A suspicious bundle containing achromatic pulverization delivered to a U.S. subject basal successful Maryland caused aggregate radical to autumn sick and led to respective being hospitalised, CNN reported connected Thursday (November 7, 2025).

A gathering connected the basal was evacuated aft an idiosyncratic “opened a suspicious package,” CNN said, citing a connection from Joint Base Andrews, located extracurricular Washington, D.C.

“As a precaution, the gathering and connecting gathering were evacuated, and a cordon was established astir the area,” the connection said.

Several radical were transported to the Malcolm Grove Medical Center connected the base, CNN said. The grade of their illnesses was not known.

Joint Base Andrews is famously known arsenic the location basal for Air Force One, the craft utilized to transport the President of the United States.

The bundle contained an chartless achromatic powder, said CNN, citing 2 sources acquainted with the investigation.

Joint Base Andrews archetypal responders had determined determination was nary contiguous menace and had turned the country implicit to the Office of Special Investigations, said CNN.

An archetypal tract trial from the HAZMAT squad did not observe thing hazardous, but the probe remains ongoing, added CNN, citing 1 of the sources acquainted with the matter.

CNN said that the country wherever the envelope was opened, located successful a gathering that houses the Air National Guard Readiness Center, had been closed.

The U.S. Department of Defense and Joint Base Andrews did not instantly respond to a Reuters petition for comment. Reuters could not instantly verify the report