It happened in the state of Chiapas. These are young people between 13 and 15 years old.
At least 110 students from a secondary school in Mexico were intoxicated this Friday by ingesting water that was contaminated with drugs.
It happened in the municipality of Bochil, belonging to the state of Chiapas, where the students of the Juana de Asbaje secondary school began to present symptoms of intoxication.
Is about young people between 13 and 15 years old older on average than began to pass out or have seizures shortly after drinking from the network. Consequently more than 50 of them had to be hospitalized.
The discomforts, which were repeated and multiplied more and more, caused chaos, uncertainty and fear among the parents.
Due to the complex situation, the municipal, state Preventive Police and National Guard, supported by protection elements, moved to the area and ensured medical care for those affected. In addition, they began to investigate the causes of the massive intoxication.
Although the authorities have not given an official position on the case, on Saturday afternoon the State Attorney General’s Office reported on its official Twitter account that it began carrying out toxicological tests on the students of the institution “achieving so far the application of 15 tests, which were negative for drugs of abuse,” he specified.
According to the information issued by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) until this Saturday afternoon, 57 students were treated at the Bochil rural hospital.
The institution reported that 55 of them have already been discharged and one remains stable and under observation.
Other cases of poisoning in Mexican schools
It is It is the third case of poisoning in a school in less than a month in Chiapas.: The previous two occurred in the municipality of Tapachula, in two educational establishments.
The first of the cases was registered in the Federal Secondary School Number One at the end of September, where 34 students were intoxicated.
The second case originated last Thursday at the Ricardo Flores Magón secondary school, where 10 students with the same condition were reported.
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