Some 1,500 teachers and students
at an elementary school near Genoa were evacuated after someone
let off pepper spray on the second floor of the building on
Tuesday, local sources said.
Everyone inside the Parentucelli Arzelà school at Sarzana was
told to leave the building after a dozen or so youngsters
complained of irritation to their respiratory tracts, the
sources said.
The students who breathed in the spray were treated by
medical staff while firemen cleared the school and made sure all
traces of the spray had dispersed.
The students were then accompanied back in to get their bags
and personal effects.
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