Four need hospital treatment as parents tell of shock at incident
SCHOOL pupils were rushed to hospital yesterday after taking drugs on their lunch break.
The Record understands that about 20 second and third-year students at Dunfermline High took the tablets after finding a stash hidden behind a shop.
Five ambulances, multiple police cars and special response teams rushed to the site just after 1pm.
It is suspected the pills may have been Valium or the sedative Etizolam but this had not been confirmed.
The Scottish Ambulance Service treated six pupils at the scene and took four to the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy for precautionary checks.
The school sent an emergency text to all parents and carers as the drama unfolded, saying they’d been “made aware that some of our pupils may have taken tablets outwith school grounds during lunchtime”.
It added: “We called emergency services immediately and have worked tirelessly with them to try to identify and support pupils who may have been affected.
“Our first priority has been to check the identified names and BY JAMES MONCUR contact their parents/carers. We have, in conjunction with police and paramedics, also held two quick assemblies with S2 and S3 to ask for any more possible names and to inform them that we’d be contacting parents/carers immediately.
Worried parents took to Facebook to raise concerns.
Describing the drugs discovery, one mother wrote: “Kids found nearly 100 of them behind the shop uncovered and started handing them out for free. It beggars belief.”
Fife Council head of education and children’s services Phil Black said: “We have spoken to children this afternoon with police and paramedics to make sure anyone who has taken tablets has been identified and treated.”
Police said their probe into the incident was ongoing and officers were following a positive line of inquiry.