Besatt istället för befriad / masspsykos

At around 11:45am on June 19 at the popular prefectural high school Kamigōri High in Kamigōri, Hyogo Prefecture, a first-year female student complained during recess that she was feeling unwell, saying “I feel sick”, and experienced hyper-ventilation. Other students who saw her in this state successively complained of symptoms such as hyperventilation throughout the early afternoon and a total of eighteen girls — seventeen first-year students and one third-year student — were carried to two different municipal hospitals. All of the schoolgirls were conscious, and their lives are not said to be in danger.

According to Aioi city police department, the female student who had first complained of feeling unwell was said by other students to have “supernatural senses”. The girl had been in a state of panic, wailing and crying, and police assume that this panic then spread to the other students in the same way.

According to the school, this state of panic lasted for more than an hour, and students were taken one after another to the nurse’s office. Due to the fact that there were some students for whom symptoms such as cramps grew worse, the school called 119 [emergency services] at just past 1:30pm.