Approximately 40 children living near the steel workshop in the village of Arbabkhatoun in Rudaki district were poisoned as a result of an explosion of an ammonia chloride container in the workshop.

According to the information provided to Asia-Plus in the Committee for Emergency Situations, the accident occurred on Thursday evening, around 21:00.

All the injured children have been placed in the Qarya-i Bala and in the 1 ^st Soviet hospitals in Dushanbe.

The source said: “According to the doctors, the children’s lives is not at risk, and they are going through intensive therapy.”

Police, Emergency Situations Committee and the Environmental Protection Services are investigating on the site.