Carbon monoxide poisons more than 60 students

By Tom Qian  |   2008-12-25  |     ONLINE EDITION

  EMAIL STORY

  PRINTABLE VIEW

  BLOG STORY

  COPY HEADLINE AND URL

  SHARE

MORE than 60 students in a school in Inner Mongolia were poisoned by carbon monoxide yesterday, Xinhua news agency reported today.

Forty-one students and a teacher were still in hospital in Hohhot City, capital of the province.

Student dormitories shared a corridor with the boiler room, which may have led to the incident, according to the report.

Officials ordered school authorities to build a wall to separate the boiler room with the dormitories to avoid future accidents, the report said.
It was not first carbon monoxide poisoning case this month.
Eleven female students were found dead after a carbon monoxide leak at a school in Dingbian County in Shaanxi Province on December 2.
The victims' families were each given 200,000 yuan (US$29,050) in compensation by the local government.

Chinese story link
related stories

Shanghainese donate cash to plant trees in ...

RESIDENTS in Shanghai have donated more than 200,000 yuan (US$28,571) to a Chinese after a report revealed that the woman has spent nearly one million yuan planting 110,000 trees to ease the environmental situation...

MORE