Eight people, including seven college students, were hospitalized on Monday May 16 after poisoning of undetermined origin in an aquatic center in Andrézieux-Bouthéon (Loire), we learned from the firefighters and the prefecture.
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Those treated suffered from vomiting, headaches and sore throats.
Among them are seven students from two 6th grade classes at the Jacques Prévert college in Andrézieux-Bouthéon, who bathed Monday morning in the city's Nautiform pools, managed by the metropolis of Saint-Etienne.
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Fifty-four people were evacuated, including 46 children who were seen individually by the firefighters and the Samu
”, declared Judicaële Ruby, chief of staff of the Loire prefecture.
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Among them, eight people, including seven college students, were taken to the North Hospital of Saint-Priest-en-Jarez (Loire) or to the Forez hospital center in Montbrison (Loire) in an emergency
,” said -she further detailed during a press briefing which followed the intervention of around fifty firefighters and members of the Samu, as well as around fifteen gendarmes.
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The first analyzes came back negative, other research is underway to determine the origin of this incident.
In the meantime, the establishment remains closed
, ”said the prefecture, adding that the Saint-Etienne prosecution had opened an investigation for endangering the lives of others.
