2 pupils die in school restroom collapse
Source: Xinhua |
December 29, 2012, Saturday
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TWO children died and two others were injured after an outdoor restroom collapsed in a primary school in south China's Guangdong Province yesterday.
Officials in Guangdong's Luoding City said the accident happened at around 8:10am at the school.
Four children were injured when a wall of the restroom collapsed. Two of them died in hospital, while the other two are in a stable condition.
Local authorities are investigating and the city has ordered safety inspections for its middle and primary schools.
China has seen a string of incidents in recent months in which children have been killed or injured in school bus crashes, violent attacks and child abuse cases. Experts say the tragedies, which often occurred in rural schools, have exposed a lack of government supervision.
On Monday, 11 preschoolers died after the school van they were in plunged into a roadside pond in a rural area of Jiangxi Province.
The privately run kindergarten they attended was found to have been operating without a license for eight years.
On December 15, a man stormed into a village primary school and slashed 23 pupils with a knife in the central Henan Province. Surveillance footage showed the school was poorly guarded at the time.
Officials in Guangdong's Luoding City said the accident happened at around 8:10am at the school.
Four children were injured when a wall of the restroom collapsed. Two of them died in hospital, while the other two are in a stable condition.
Local authorities are investigating and the city has ordered safety inspections for its middle and primary schools.
China has seen a string of incidents in recent months in which children have been killed or injured in school bus crashes, violent attacks and child abuse cases. Experts say the tragedies, which often occurred in rural schools, have exposed a lack of government supervision.
On Monday, 11 preschoolers died after the school van they were in plunged into a roadside pond in a rural area of Jiangxi Province.
The privately run kindergarten they attended was found to have been operating without a license for eight years.
On December 15, a man stormed into a village primary school and slashed 23 pupils with a knife in the central Henan Province. Surveillance footage showed the school was poorly guarded at the time.
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