23:10, 14 December 2006

Chechnya residents confirm a new outbreak of mass children disease

About thirty children-residents of Staroschedrinskaya village of the Shelkovskoj District of Chechnya have been taken ill again with an unknown disease, officially treated as massive post-war mental disorder. Zarema Gatsaeva, medical assistant of the village, reported the story to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot." Most of the patients are schoolgirls aged from 9 to 13. Eighteen of them are registered in her work logbook, since they approached the paramedical for help. The outbreak took place on September 22 this year.

The fact of a new outbreak of "mass psychosis" in local children on September 22 in Staroschedrinskaya was confirmed to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" also by Petimat Beshirkhanova, deputy principal of the village school. In her words, pupils started fainting right at school after midday. Some of the kids had strokes on their way home and at home.

Author: Sultan Abubakarov, CK correspondent