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100 suspects have been arrested in connection with the use of poisonous gas on schoolchildren in Iran. The country’s Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Saturday that people have been identified and arrested in several cities including Tehran.

Besides, the investigation is ongoing. The main purpose of this gas application was to create fear and panic among people and students. So that they don’t want to go to school. News from AFP.

Initial investigations revealed that some of these persons, out of mischief or mischief and with the intention of preventing girls from going to school and closing the schools, said the statement.

The first case of poisoning in the country took place on November 30 last year. On that day, 18 students of The Noor Technical School in Kom city had to be taken to the hospital. Since then, more than 10 other girls’ schools have had similar incidents. In the last week of February, at least 194 female students were gassed in four schools in the town of Borujard in the western province of Lorestan. At the same time, 37 female students from the Khayyam Girls’ School in Pardis, near the capital Tehran, were poisoned. The students who fell ill later reported that they smelled like small oranges or rotten fish before they got sick.