Manta, MANABI
Several students and even —at least— one teacher suffered respiratory problems after they inhaled tear gas that was handled in a practice run by an elite police group.
The incident occurred around 5:30 p.m. this Wednesday and affected the Pedro Balda Cucalón educational unit, located between 113 and 4 de Noviembre avenues, next to the National Police Community Surveillance Unit building.
Luis Cano, chief of the Manta police district, indicated that unfortunately a tear gas bomb was handled and that presumably the current in that sense played a trick on them and carried that gas towards the premises of the educational establishment.
“He has brought the gas cloud to the school. We do not have any toxic or poisonous gases. That is going to give them or perhaps it is going to burn their skin, it is going to close their nostrils; And, if we start to get desperate in a certain way, it will be a little more,” Cano declared about the effects generated by inhaling tear gas.
Several were the students who hastily left the school facilities, and some, until medical attention arrived, threw themselves to the ground. The number of those affected could not be known immediately, but a teacher was taken to the IESS hospital in Manta.
What was anticipated is that the students did not have a serious condition after inhalation and recovered.
Cano pointed out that they will take the corrections after this incident and will no longer carry out the practices with elite police groups.
“The important thing in a crisis is to remain calm. The situation will gradually pass. In a way, it causes a bit of anguish,” Cano said. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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