KIEV. May 22. UNN. The number of victims as a result of poisoning by an unknown gas at school in Kharkov increased. It is reported by UNN citing Twitter of the acting Minister of health Ulyana Suprun.

“The situation in Kharkiv: in the school № 3, the poisoning of children by an unknown gas (possibly pepper). Injured 37 children who were hospitalized in the CSTO № 1 (33 – in light condition 3 – average condition; 1 in serious condition). Children under the close supervision of doctors”, – is spoken in the message.

As reported UNN, after the announcement of the sputtering gas in the Kharkov school, the local authorities reported about the treatment of schoolchildren to doctors with complaints of weakness and shortness of breath, in regional children’s hospital 15 hospitalized children.

We will remind, earlier the father of one of the students, the lawyer Oleg Golovkov said that in one of the Kharkov school sprayed gas, children are taken to the hospital.