Bikers throw chemical-laced colours on schoolgirls during Holi in Karnataka, 7 injured

Seven schoolgirls were seriously injured after a gang of Holi celebrating men threw chemical-laced colours on them while they were waiting for their school bus in Lakshmeshwar town of Gadag district in Karnataka on Friday, March



15.

The schoolgirls suffered suffocation and chest pain after they unknowingly inhaled and ingested traces of the colour mixture while trying to escape the men.

They are currently being treated at the Gadag Institute of Medical Sciences.