Jimu News Reporter Manda Intern Luo Yan
Comprehensive Reuters , Mexico Local media reported that on the evening of October 7th local time, 110 students from a rural middle school in Bochil City, Chiapas State, southern Mexico collectively developed symptoms of poisoning such as fainting and vomiting. A total of 57 people were sent to the hospital, one of whom was in critical condition. The students allegedly may have consumed water contaminated with drugs. This is also the third student collective poisoning incident in , Chiapas, , in the past two weeks.
There was chaos in the hospital (Picture source: Facebook)
The online video showed that the hospital was in chaos. Amid the anxious shouts, parents rushed through the corridor of the hospital with a teenager in school uniforms. There are also videos showing dozens of parents gathered on the basketball court of a middle school and asked the authorities to make an explanation. More than 10 policemen were on the side, and policemen were holding shields. A man in the video said his daughter and classmates tested positive for cocaine based on test results from a private lab.
students receiving treatment in the hospital (Photo source: Facebook)
This happened in a rural middle school in Bochil, Chiapas, southern Mexico. According to the local Mexican media Proceso, the students were between 12 and 15 years old and developed symptoms of poisoning during night classes on the evening of the 7th.
According to Mexican Trevisa TV, Daniela, a poisoned student, said that she and her classmates began to feel uncomfortable after drinking water, some had headaches, some had stomachache, some fainting and convulsions, and one person even foamed at the mouth.
Poisoned students received treatment in the hospital (Picture source: Facebook)
After the incident, the local civil defense department, police, etc. came to the school and transferred the students to the local rural hospital. The director of the Bochill Civil Defense Bureau said that a total of 110 students at the school have symptoms. However, according to the report of the Mexican Institute of Social Security, only 57 people were sent to the hospital, 56 were stable and discharged, and one person was transferred to the hospital, and is currently in critical condition. "We are angry about these things," the leaders of Bochill City said in a statement, adding that they are cooperating with the state attorney's investigation.
Some parents said that they asked a private laboratory to test the poisoning, and the results showed that it was cocaine poisoning. Many parents suspect that the students were poisoned by drinking water diluted with cocaine.
On October 8, the Chiapas State Attorney's Office said on social media that after reports of students testing positive for cocaine in local media and social media, relevant departments have conducted 15 toxicological tests, and all of them have negative reactions to banned drugs.
At present, the middle school has been suspended and the investigation is still underway.
This is the third campus poisoning incident in Chiapas in the past two weeks. At the end of September, 34 students were poisoned in a local middle school. Last Thursday, 10 students from another local high school experienced the same symptoms.
