Thirty-seven students were admitted to the hospital after
poisonous gas leaked from a nearby chemical storehouse in northeast
China's Liaoning Province, hospital sources said on
Thursday.
Three students, including one who is seriously ill, were still
under observation in the First Affiliate Hospital of the China
Medical University on Thursday morning. The 34 other patients were
discharged.
The leak occurred at 9:00 PM on Wednesday at the Liaoning Petroleum
and Chemical Storehouse in the Dongling District, located in the
industrial city of Shenyang, investigators said.
A container lid broke away from the container after a rise in
temperature, according to investigators. They offered no other
details.
The vocational school, which is next to the storehouse, has
about 300 students.
(Xinhua News Agency July 26, 2007)