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Trump supporters sitting on stage during Arizona rally suffered mysterious eye injuries

Several Donald Trump supporters claim they suffered a mysterious eye injury and were forced to seek medical attention due to the “unbearable” pain after sitting behind the former president during his rally in Arizona.

Mayra Rodriguez was one of Trump's most loyal supporters and sat in a restricted area on the right side of the stage behind the former president at Ronstadt Music Hall in Tucson on Sept. 12, KVOA reported.

Rodriguez claimed she felt eye irritation as she left the venue after her nearly 80-minute speech.

Mayra Rodriguez claims she suffered extreme eye irritation immediately after Trump's rally in Tucson last week. News 4 Tucson

“As soon as we left and stepped outside, my eyes burned,” Rodriguez, a former Planned Parenthood director/whistleblower and vocal Republican Party figure, told the outlet.

Rodriguez thought it was just her allergies, so she got in her car and began the 90-minute drive back to her home in Phoenix.

On the way home, however, her eye irritation became so severe that she rushed to the emergency room.

When she arrived, the “triage nurse to PA [physician’s assistant]“She began to ask if she had been “sprayed with something,” said the former Hillary Clinton voter and current Trump supporter.

“'Are you sure you weren't sprayed with something? Your symptoms look like you were sprayed with something,'” she said of the questions she received from emergency room staff.

Rodriguez and others greet Trump on stage at the rally. Rob Schumacher/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Her symptoms only worsened the next day.

“When I try to open my eyes, I can't see anything. I see a bright light,” Rodriguez said. “It hurts, it hurts a lot to open my eyes. I have this cold cloth that I keep putting on and taking off. It's horrible.”

Medical staff could not make an accurate diagnosis of the cause of her eye injuries.

However, Rodriguez told News 12 that a doctor stated her injuries were not caused by the venue's lights.

Rodriguez said her symptoms only worsened the next day. Owen Ziliak/The Republic/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

KVOA reported that she was “almost blind” when spoken to after the rally that Friday.

Fortunately, her vision improved on Tuesday, according to KVOA.

A brother and sister, who wished to remain anonymous, said they sat next to Rodriguez and made eerily similar claims.

“It just kept getting worse,” the sister told KVOA about the symptoms she felt after leaving Trump's rally.

Rodriguez claimed she felt eye irritation as she left the venue after her nearly 80-minute speech. News 4 Tucson

“My eyes started watering a lot, my nose started running, then I felt my face turn red and my throat felt like it was burning, and it just got worse from there.”

He described the same escalation of pain in her brother, which he called “unbearable.”

“Everything was focused on my eyes, my eyes were red as hell, you know, it's unbearable. I couldn't handle it,” he told the outlet.

Trump's campaign team said the allegations were currently being investigated. REUTERS

The Secret Service said it had no knowledge of the incident involving the protesters but claimed there was no threat to Trump at the Arizona event, which drew more than 2,000 of his supporters to hear him speak again about the November election, the organization told the news agency.

Rodriguez told News 12 she wondered why only members of the group sitting on the right side of the stage were affected.

“Why only the group that Trump belonged to?” she asked.

The bizarre incident occurred just days before authorities said a suspected gunman attempted to assassinate Trump at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday afternoon.

The suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, came within 300 to 500 feet of Trump while standing at a chain-link fence at the edge of the golf course while armed with an AK-type assault rifle, but was spotted by a Secret Service agent who opened fire on him, authorities said.