New poisonings are recorded in three other schools in the country

In recent days, Venezuelan authorities have recorded poisonings among several dozen students in five schools in different states of the country. related to challenges on social networksThe Minister of the Interior, Diosdado Cabello, reported this Wednesday.

In his weekly program ‘With the hammer giving’, he detailed that two of the five educational centers in which the poisonings were detected are in the state of Miranda, one in Barinas and two in Portuguesa.

On November 5, the first mass poisoning was detected, which affected 94 people in a school in Barinas.where, according to the state channel VTV, A 14-year-old student – now detained – uncovered a bottle that contained “a pinkish liquid substance” that “is being analyzed.”

Three days later, authorities registered 85 poisonings in a school in Portuguesa, for a “suspected unidentified chemical substance.”

«This is a problem that must be faced, the issue of social networks, legislation, regulation (…). They post messages and from there promote the participation of people, in this case young people,” Cabello said today, without updating the total number of intoxicated people.

He added that “there will come a time” when it will be necessary to “regulate the use of social networks,” Well, he said, “when you do not have control of the elements that are being used for these types of challenges,” you can “end up building something highly harmful, with dire consequences.”

The cases, which are suspected to be related to the viral ‘chroming’ challenge consisting of inhaling toxic substances from aerosols, deodorants, paints and insecticides, are being investigated by the Scientific, Criminal and Criminal Investigations Corps.