Three days after the intoxication of more than 150 bathers, Sunday afternoon in Ténès, the Algerian Ministry of the Interior announced in a press release this Wednesday, July 7 results incriminating the chlorine spilled by the services of the municipality in a wadi se throwing into the sea.
After biological analyzes of the samples taken in the sea and on the beach of Ténès, the Algerian Ministry of the Interior published a statement on its Twitter thread, indicating that the water contained many toxic substances.
According to the ministry, “this is due to the fact that the town hall uses purifying chlorine in the waters of a wadi flowing into the sea. A treatment as part of the fight against the spread of diseases”. The Interior Ministry recalls that people intoxicated on Sunday are doing well and adds that the beach will be cleaned before being reopened to the public.
On Sunday July 4, many families gathered on Ténès beach for the opening of the summer season, when at the end of the afternoon, dozens of bathers began to vomit, faint or complaining about headaches. More than thirty civil protection rescuers, including professional divers, who came to their aid, were in turn poisoned.
A total of 149 people were treated at Zighoud Youssef hospital in Ténès, a town located 200 kilometers west of Algiers. Since then, all the victims have been able to leave the hospital.
