The firefighters took charge, this Friday morning, of children from the Frédéric-Mistral college in Lunel (Hérault), inconvenienced by “chlorinated vapors”, during a school outing to the aquatic center of the city, Aqualuna, indicates the prefecture .
This “collective poisoning”, which affected the children of two middle school classes, “follows a mixture of incompatible products that generated a chemical reaction”, indicate the services of the Hérault prefecture.
The report shows 37 children taken care of by the emergency services, of which 16, presenting irritations in the respiratory tract, were transported to the hospitals of Nîmes (Gard) and Montpellier, as well as to the Saint-Jean clinic. . According to the prefecture, “the state of health of the children is not serious”.