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UAE: Pesticides company under investigation after 23 students and teachers hospitalised
"23 hospitalised after school poisoning in Sharjah," 29 Jan 2020
Twenty three people including students and teachers were hospitalised after being exposed to pesticides at a school in Sharjah...
477 people [were] evacuated by emergency response teams. The school was closed for the rest of the day and those not in need of medical attention were sent home.
Pesticide had been applied by a pest control company to control mosquitoes according to police, and inhalation of the chemicals had led to several pupils falling ill...
[a police] investigation was underway and the director of the pest control company had been summoned for questioning.