Local media reported that dozens of young girls were poisoned on Saturday, April 8, in several schools across Iran, a country that has been rocked for more than four months by a mysterious case of poisoning of schoolgirls.
Since the end of November, many schools, mostly girls, have been affected by sudden poisoning by toxic gases or substances, causing fainting and fainting, sometimes followed by hospitalization.
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On Friday, state television quoted the head of the National Fact-Finding Commission on the case, MP Hamid Reza Kazemi, as saying that the final report of the commission would be published. ” Within two weeks “.
Several provinces involved
at least “60 female students were poisoned (Saturday) at a girls’ school in Heftekal.”In Khuzestan Province (southwest), the IRB News Agency reported, quoting a local official. Schoolgirls were also poisoned “Five schools in Ardabil in the northwest”where they were presented Symptoms of anxiety, shortness of breath, and headacheadded the same source.
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in Urmia, the capital of West (Northwest) Azerbaijan Province, “unspecified number” Primary school students were also affected After dropping the gasFor its part, Ilna Agency indicated without further details.
“More than 5,000 students” are already drunk
An official report was reported on March 7 More than 5,000 students Intoxicated in more than 230 establishments located in 25 provinces, out of 31 in the country. The poisonings stopped in early March after 100 arrests were announced and resumed three weeks later.
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on March 6 “severe penalties”to the point of death, against persons who may be found responsible for these poisonings.
This case began two months after the start of the protest movement that erupted in Iran with the death, on September 16, of Mohsa Amini, a young woman who was detained by the morality police, accusing her of violating the strict dress code imposed, in particular, on women who dressed. from the veil.
