Iran gas leak puts 130 in hospital, closes schools
Incident at sewage plant causes breathing problems, headaches, dizziness and vomiting for area residents
A screen capture of an patients at an Iranian hospital. (YouTube screen capture/Al Jazeera English)
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Some 130 people were taken to hospital and more than 100 schools closed Monday in southeast Iran after an incident at a sewage treatment plant caused an outbreak of poisonous gas.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of dumping expired pesticide which reacted with water to produce a noxious gas that left people with breathing problems, headaches, dizziness and vomiting.
With winds blowing gas into the streets, a total of 130 people were taken to hospital, Mahmoud Imani, deputy director of treatment at Zahedan Medical University, was quoted as saying.The problems in Zahedan, in Sistan-Baluchistan province, led to 109 schools being closed and 60 pupils and three staff were affected, an education official told the official IRNA news agency.
Some of those affected have since been released, the report said.
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