25 school children got poisoned after taking pills in southwest Russia, the Emergencies Ministry’s city department said on Friday, the Xinhua news agency reports.

According to preliminary information, one of children at the school gave “Isoniazid” and “Hexavit” pills to others, and after the children took the pills they felt unwell. They are hospitalized.

The children are from a boarding school in Voronezh, about 500 km south of Moscow. Two of them are taken to a reanimation ward, a source at the department was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying.

A district prosecutor’s office in the city is investigating the incident.

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