MOSCOW, Dec. 26 (Xinhuanet) -- At least 78 people were sickened byunidentified gas in a store in the northern city of St. Petersburg on Monday, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.

    A ministry spokesman told the Interfax news agency that 78 people, most of them shop employees of the Maxidom chain, was poisoned and 66 people are being treated in hospitals, 12 of them in serious conditions. Enditem