Students from the Agricultural Technical Institute in Hato, Columbia were taken to hospital (Picture: JamPress)
Eleven children were found passed out in their school after they took part in a ‘ouija board game’ it is feared.
Teachers were shocked after they found the students collapsed in a corridor
The children aged 13 to 17 suffered from violent vomiting, abdominal pain and muscle spasms.
The teachers took the students from the Agricultural Technical Institute in Hato, Columbia, to a nearby health centre.
However five of the children were rushed to the Manuela Beltrán Hospital, in the district of Socorro.
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The youngsters spent a day receiving treatment, but the mysterious cause of their illness has left staff baffled.
It is alleged that the children were involved in a Ouija board game – a board with letters, numbers, and other signs around its edge used to make contact with the dead.
Jose Pablo Toloza Rondón, the mayor of Hato said: ‘The children were passed out, at the time they were found they were short of breath and thick drool was coming out of their mouths.
‘It is not ruled out that it was the Ouija board, that is part of the investigation.
‘Others say that they consumed water from a container, others that they came from a pool and had been given something to eat.’
After interviewing the children, it was concluded that they drank water from the same glass.
Juan Pablo Vargas Noguera, emergency medical coordinator at Hospital del Socorro said: ‘We went to El Hato and we found 11 patients between 13 and 17 years old with vomiting, abdominal pain and muscle spasms.
‘We did not find psychological alteration in the children, taking into account that it was said that it would have been from playing the Ouija board.
‘The medical report says it was due to food poisoning.’
The rectory of the Technical Institute said that it was not going to rule on the case until the facts were clarified with authorities.
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The students suffered from violent vomiting, abdominal pain and muscle spasms.
