Unknown Poisoning Hits Children in Chechnya
TODAYonline, Singapore
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Grozny (Chechnya):
Dozens of children in war-torn Chechnya have come down with a mysterious illness that doctors and emergency workers said may have been caused by poisoning.."Right now there are 48 people hospitalized," Akhmed Dzhayrkhanov, deputy head of the emergency situations ministry in Chechnya, told AFP by telephone.
"So far we cannot say exactly whether it is a case of poisoning."Russian officials said that nearly all the victims, who have been falling ill over the last few days, were young girls, most of them from the northern Chechen villages of Starogladovskaya and Staroshcherdinskaya.
The education ministry said that the two schools in those villages had been put in quarantine.The emergency situations ministry said it was sending specialists from Moscow and also that an investigation would be carried out in more sophisticated laboratories outside the impoverished Chechen republic.."Right now there are 48 people hospitalized," Akhmed Dzhayrkhanov, deputy head of the emergency situations ministry in Chechnya, told AFP by telephone. "So far we cannot say exactly whether it is a case of poisoning."
21 Dec, 2005
TODAYonline, Singapore
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Grozny (Chechnya):
Dozens of children in war-torn Chechnya have come down with a mysterious illness that doctors and emergency workers said may have been caused by poisoning.."Right now there are 48 people hospitalized," Akhmed Dzhayrkhanov, deputy head of the emergency situations ministry in Chechnya, told AFP by telephone.
"So far we cannot say exactly whether it is a case of poisoning."Russian officials said that nearly all the victims, who have been falling ill over the last few days, were young girls, most of them from the northern Chechen villages of Starogladovskaya and Staroshcherdinskaya.
The education ministry said that the two schools in those villages had been put in quarantine.The emergency situations ministry said it was sending specialists from Moscow and also that an investigation would be carried out in more sophisticated laboratories outside the impoverished Chechen republic.."Right now there are 48 people hospitalized," Akhmed Dzhayrkhanov, deputy head of the emergency situations ministry in Chechnya, told AFP by telephone. "So far we cannot say exactly whether it is a case of poisoning."
21 Dec, 2005
