Intoxicated by the cloud of chlorine in the swimming pool, 150 children were rescued and hospitalized in Guastalla

A chemical cloud, of chlorine in reaction with another component, it was released this morning around 8 am swimming pools Of Guastalla (Reggio Emilia), a private facility, adjacent to many schools in the town – 2 thousand students – causing coughing and watery eyes.

Milan, children poisoned in the swimming pool: they inhaled vapors of a chlorine mixture. Eleven people in hospital

There are 150 poisoned victims, mostly boys, the mayor Camilla Verona reports to Ansa, some hospitalized in the emergency room in Guastalla, others in the hospitals of Reggio Emilia and Montecchio. The situation is currently recovering, with children starting to return to class again.

THE MAINTENANCE

The yellowish chemical cloud released from the Guastalla swimming pools this morning apparently originated from an accident during maintenance work on the plant’s purifiers. According to what was learned, an employee of a chemical company had brought sulfuric acid, a substance widely used in many swimming pools equipped with automatic regulation to lower the pH of the water, for storage. However – this is one of the hypotheses formulated so far – the acid would have come into contact with another substance, triggering the chemical reaction and the yellowish cloud. Cloud that hit the technician at work, who is among those intoxicated and his life is not in danger.

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