Cocaine at school?: the strange case of mass intoxication in an educational center in Chiapas

Friday night was hell in Bochil, a small town in the Altos de Chiapas, in southern Mexico.

Dozens of young people between 13 and 15 years old began to go to the hospital accompanied by relatives, with stomach pain and seizures.

Some even lost consciousness.

It looked like a case of food poisoning, but some of the relatives went to a private laboratory and the tests, they said, showed that their daughters and sons suffered from cocaine intoxication.

Until this Saturday, the authorities have spoken of 57 young people, all students of the Juana de Asbaje secondary school.

Most presented a stable condition, but one of them had to be transferred to a larger hospital due to his delicate condition.

This Saturday, the Chiapas State Attorney General's Office published a statement on social networks indicating that it is investigating the matter.

The Prosecutor's Office explains that so far it has carried out 15 toxicological tests and that all of them were "negative for drugs of abuse."

Bochil's case is reminiscent of what happened just a few weeks ago, also in Chiapas, then in Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala.

A gas leak in a school poisoned dozens of students, who presented similar symptoms: dizziness, abdominal pain and fainting.

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