More cases of serial poisoning of schoolgirls in Iran after arrests
In a fresh wave of serial poisonings in Iran, more than a dozen schoolgirls were transferred to a hospital on the outskirts of Tehran on Saturday, Anadolu reports
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Local media cited officials in Pardis, a suburb located 17 kilometers (105 miles) northeast of Tehran, as saying that students at Khayyam Girls School complained of being unwell after an explosion of a homemade grenade.
The smell emanating from the explosion, they said, made students dizzy and at least 15 of them subsequently had to be taken to a local hospital.
Some reports said the symptoms were that of "stress" caused by the explosion. All the students have since been discharged from the hospital and an investigation is underway.
In another incident reported from the northern Ardabil city on Saturday, a video published online showed a hospital ambulance parked outside a girls' school.
Later in the day, doctors at Ardabil Medical Emergency Center told media people that several students had complained of symptoms such as anxiety, breathing difficulties and headache, and were admitted to hospitals.
Majority of these students have since been discharged from the hospitals, officials said.
Also on Saturday, reports of poisonings came from two girls' schools in the southwestern Khuzestan province with a number of students taken to hospital for treatment.
The first cases of these serial poisonings were reported in November in the central city of Qom when dozens of schoolgirls were hospitalized after complaining of nausea, headache, breathing difficulties, cough, and body pain.
Source: Middle East Monitor under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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