Three weeks after the last case, this Tuesday a new case of poisoning was registered in a girls’ school in Iran, the day after classes resumed after two weeks of vacation, according to local media.
Twenty students from a school in the northwestern city of Tabriz were taken to hospital for respiratory problems, the official Irna news agency reported.
“Emergency services were sent to the scene after several students” reported “difficulty breathing,” said the head of emergencies.
But, he said, none of them were in serious condition.
Since the end of November, many schools, mostly girls, have been affected by sudden poisoning by gases or toxic substances that have caused fainting spells and fainting spells that have sometimes led to hospitalization.
“More than 5,000 students” affected since the end of November
In total, the authorities have counted “more than 5,000 students” affected in more than 230 establishments in 25 of the 31 provinces of the country. This series ended after the announcement in early March by the authorities of a hundred arrests.
A few days earlier, the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had called for “severe sentences”, even going so far as the death penalty, against those who would be responsible for these poisonings, denouncing “unforgivable crimes”.
Given the proliferation of cases, parents of students and neighbors had mobilized to express their concern and call on the authorities to act.
The case began two months after the start of the protest movement sparked in Iran by the death on September 16 of Mahsa Amini, a young woman detained by the moral police who accused her of having violated the strict dress code that is imposed in particular to the women who wear the veil.
Source: BFM TV
