4 pupils die in rush to get to class
By Li Qian |
February 28, 2013, Thursday
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Four students were killed in a stampede at an elementary school in central China's Hubei Province yesterday and late last night three seriously injured pupils were still being treated in hospital.
A total of 11 students were hurt in the accident at around 6:15am in Qinji elementary school in Laohekou City. Four of them died after emergency treatment, according to local government news portal www.ihk.gov.cn.
The three in hospital were said to have no major organ damage and their vital signs were stable.
An initial investigation found that the students had been in a rush to attend an early class but the gates of their dormitory were still shut. Witnesses said hundreds of students had crowded on stairs linking the first and second floor waiting for the supervisor to open the gates.
Pictures posted online showed that the iron gates had been partly damaged in the stampede.
There is only one exit on the first floor of the school's temporary dormitory, which used to be a four-story teaching building. Five hundred students boarded at the 900-pupil school.
Eight officials, including the head of the local education bureau, and two school officials, including the headmaster, have been removed from their posts and placed under investigation, local government officials said, citing dereliction of duty.
The two school officials and four others have also been transferred to judicial departments, Xinhua news agency reported.
China National Radio said that the deputy mayor of Laohekou, who wasn't named, burst into tears when making a public apology at a press conference.
Officials from Xiangyang City, which administers Laohekou, are dealing with the aftermath of the tragedy.
In November, 33 students at an elementary school in Changsha, capital of Hunan Province, were injured in a stampede when they rushed back to their classrooms from the playground after a sports lesson was canceled because of rain.
They collided with younger students going down the stairs as they were trying to climb up. No one was seriously injured.
A total of 11 students were hurt in the accident at around 6:15am in Qinji elementary school in Laohekou City. Four of them died after emergency treatment, according to local government news portal www.ihk.gov.cn.
The three in hospital were said to have no major organ damage and their vital signs were stable.
An initial investigation found that the students had been in a rush to attend an early class but the gates of their dormitory were still shut. Witnesses said hundreds of students had crowded on stairs linking the first and second floor waiting for the supervisor to open the gates.
Pictures posted online showed that the iron gates had been partly damaged in the stampede.
There is only one exit on the first floor of the school's temporary dormitory, which used to be a four-story teaching building. Five hundred students boarded at the 900-pupil school.
Eight officials, including the head of the local education bureau, and two school officials, including the headmaster, have been removed from their posts and placed under investigation, local government officials said, citing dereliction of duty.
The two school officials and four others have also been transferred to judicial departments, Xinhua news agency reported.
China National Radio said that the deputy mayor of Laohekou, who wasn't named, burst into tears when making a public apology at a press conference.
Officials from Xiangyang City, which administers Laohekou, are dealing with the aftermath of the tragedy.
In November, 33 students at an elementary school in Changsha, capital of Hunan Province, were injured in a stampede when they rushed back to their classrooms from the playground after a sports lesson was canceled because of rain.
They collided with younger students going down the stairs as they were trying to climb up. No one was seriously injured.
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