Three days after the intoxication of more than 150 bathers, on Sunday afternoon in Ténès, the Algerian Ministry of the Interior announced in a press release on Wednesday, July 7, that they are incriminating chlorine spilled by municipal services in a wadi floating in the sea.
Following biological analyzes of the samples taken at sea and on the beach in 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 cleansing chlorine in the water of a wadi that flows into the sea. A treatment (…) as part of the fight against the spread of diseases”. The Ministry of the Interior reminds that drunk people on Sunday are doing well and adds that the beach will be cleaned before it is reopened to the public.
On Sunday, July 4, many families gathered on Ténès Beach for the opening of the summer season, when in the late afternoondozens of bathers began to vomitfainting or complaints of headache. More than thirty rescue workers, 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 city 200 kilometers west of Algiers. Since then, all the victims have been able to leave the hospital.
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