People in Iran: have you been affected by the suspected poisoning attacks?

A still image shows a person being lifted into an ambulance outside a girls’ school after reports of poisoning in Ardabil, Iran Photograph: Social Media/Reuters

Dozens of schoolgirls have been admitted to hospital across five provinces of Iran in a new wave of suspected poisonings, according to local media.

Hundreds of cases of respiratory distress have been reported over the past three months among schoolgirls mainly in the city of Qom. The latest wave has seen suspected poisonings in the western Hamedan province, Zanjan and West Azerbaijan in Iran’s north-west, Fars in the south and Alborz province in the north.

President Ebrahim Raisi on Friday said he had asked ministers to investigate the poisoning cases.

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