At least 17 pupils & one teacher hospitalised after student ‘spays insecticide' in corridor at high school in Japan
AT least 17 pupils and one teacher are said to have been hospitalised after a substance was sprayed at a high school in Japan.
Cops are questioning a male student, who is believed to have sprayed insecticide as a "prank", according to Japan's broadcaster NHK.
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A teacher at Sagami Koyokan High School in Zama city, called emergency services at 11am, claiming that "a student sprayed something inside the school", reports NHK.
Before officers arrived, teachers had already begun questioning the student.
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