Tear gas irritates the eyes and the nose on contact. The accompanying smoke can burn the mouth, the throat, and the lungs like fire. Breathing becomes difficult within 30 seconds of contact.

A California sheriff’s department caused 20 students to fall ill after conducting a training exercise with decades-expired tear gas near their elementary school. The students and one teacher at ...

Police in Turkey have accidentally fired a tear gas canister into a school building, hurting dozens of children including a baby. Television footage has emerged showing the children fainting ...

Tear gas is a chemical weapon commonly used by law enforcement officers for crowd control. It is primarily used to cause irritation to the eyes, mouth, throat, lungs, and skin, making it difficult ...

BERLIN-MOABIT, Germany (WKRC) - Dozens of young students were injured after tear gas was released in the hallways of an elementary school by an unknown perpetrator, authorities said. According to ...

Central American migrants cover their faces after the U.S. Border Patrol threw tear gas to disperse them on November 25. GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP/Getty Images ...

Suddenly, the second can of tear gas landed right at my feet, burning my eyes and nose instantly. My eyesight was blurry for several minutes, and when it recovered, most protesters had been ...

Using tear gas on asylum seekers, including children, is not the way to secure the U.S-Mexico border. But President Trump is, once again, justifying the normalization of cruelty as immigration policy.

Tear gas can affect every part of the body. The nose can experience burning, nasal mucosal swelling and a running nose. Other effects include difficulty swallowing, drooling and severe burning ...

After tear gas and street fires, local family cleans up as National Guard troops arrive A Paramount Home Depot — about a block away from where Ernest Melendrez cleaned, across city limits in ...

20 kids fall ill after ‘decades-old’ tear gas is used by police in training exercise near school. Students and one teacher reported burning eyes, noses and throats as the tear gas blew towards ...