At least 110 students of a secondary school in Mexico were poisoned this Friday from ingesting drug-contaminated water.

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 show symptoms of intoxication.

is approx young people between 13 and 15 years old older on average than started fainting or having convulsions shortly after drinking from the net. Consequentially more than 50 of them had to be hospitalized.

The discomforts, which repeated and multiplied more and more, caused chaos, uncertainty and fear among the parents.

Due to the complex situation, the Municipal, State and National Guard police, supported by protective elements, moved to the area and provided medical care to those affected. In addition, they began to investigate the causes of massive intoxication.

Although the authorities did not give an official position on the case, on Saturday afternoon the State Attorney General reported on its official Twitter account that it had begun to carry out toxicological tests on the students of the institute “reaching so far the application of 15 tests, which were negative for drugs of abuse, “he specified.

According to information released by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) up to this Saturday afternoon, 57 students have been treated in the rural hospital of Bochil.

The institute reported that 55 of them have already been discharged and one remains stable and under observation.

Other cases of poisoning in Mexican schools

East It is the third case of poisoning in a school in less than a month in Chiapas.: The two precedents occurred in the municipality of Tapachula, in two schools.

The first of the cases was recorded in Federal Secondary School Number One in late September, where 34 students were intoxicated.

The second case was born last Thursday at the Ricardo Flores Magón secondary school, where 10 students with the same condition were reported.

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