Iran: Dozens of Schoolgirls Still Poisoned

Dozens of young girls were poisoned to death at several schools across Iran on Saturday, a country shaken for more than four months. Mysterious incident of drunk schoolgirlLocal media reported.

Since the end of November, many schools, mostly attended by girls, have been affected by sudden poisoning from gas or poisonous substances, causing fainting and fainting, and in some cases hospitalisation.

In this case, the chairman of the National Fact-Finding Commission, M.P. Hamidreza Kazemi was quoted by state television on Friday as saying the organization’s final report would be released “in two weeks.”

Shortness of breath and headache

At least “60 students were poisoned (on Saturday)” at a girls’ school in Haftkel in Khuzestan (southwestern) province, the Iribnews news agency said, citing a local official. Schoolgirls have been poisoned in “five schools in Ardabil in the northwest,” where they presented “symptoms of anxiety, suffocation and headaches,” the same source added.

In Urmia, the capital of West Azerbaijan (Northwest) province, an “unknown number” of students from a primary school were also affected “after a gas project”, the Ilna agency indicated for its role, without further details.

“More than 5000 students” intoxicated

An official report dated March 7 stated that “more than 5000 students” are drunk in more than 230 institutions located in 25 provinces in 31 provinces in the country. The drugs were stopped in early March after an announcement Hundreds of arrests Then three weeks later it started again. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on March 6 for “severe punishments” up to the death penalty against those responsible for the poisoning.

The case began two months after the start of the protest movement in Iran, on September 16, when a young woman named Mahsa Amini died in Iran wearing a veil.

(AFP)