Many of the suspected poisonings have been reported in Qom, an Iranian city famed for its religious sites and learning. (Wana News Agency/Reuters)
Dozens of students in Iran were hospitalized for suspected poisoning this week, the latest in a series of mysterious cases at girls’ schools across the country.
Emergency services in Pardis, on the outskirts of Tehran, transferred 37 schoolgirls for treatment on Tuesday, a school official told Iran’s semiofficial Tasnim news agency. He said the students were suffering from “mild poisoning” and added that all of the girls are expected to recover.
The same day, the activist-run Human Rights Activists News Agency reported that several other female students fell ill in the city of Qom, to the south of the capital, where many of the suspected poisonings have taken place.
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