Teacher held by police after girl, 4, suffocates
By Cyril Li |
March 1, 2010, Monday
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A KINDERGARTEN head teacher in Jiangsu Province is in police custody after a four-year-old girl suffocated in an overcrowded school bus taking her home.
The seven-seat minivan hired by the kindergarten in Rugao City carried about 30 children on Friday afternoon including the victim Wu Yinuo, Yangtze Evening Post reported yesterday.
Wu suffered breathing difficulties in the overcrowded vehicle and died despite six hours of emergency treatment at a hospital in Rugao.
It was her second day at the kindergarten, said Wu's uncle, Xue Lei.
He said Wu's face had turned pale and she found it hard to breathe about 10 minutes after the van left the kindergarten.
"However, she was not taken to hospital immediately until the van had sent two other children home," he said.
Zhu Guirong, president of Chemahu hospital, told the newspaper that Wu had no heartbeat and had lost consciousness when she was taken to the hospital about 4pm.
She was pronounced dead at 10:20pm.
Xue said Wu was a healthy child and had never suffered any chronic diseases.
Classes at the kindergarten in Rugao's Guoyuan Town were suspended while Wu's family held a funeral there on Saturday, the newspaper said.
The kindergarten, which has more than 200 children, paid the van driver about 100 yuan (US$14.6) a day to transport the children to and from home.
However, the van was unlicensed for passenger service, the report said.
Just a year before, two children fell from the same van when its door accidentally opened during the journey.
The seven-seat minivan hired by the kindergarten in Rugao City carried about 30 children on Friday afternoon including the victim Wu Yinuo, Yangtze Evening Post reported yesterday.
Wu suffered breathing difficulties in the overcrowded vehicle and died despite six hours of emergency treatment at a hospital in Rugao.
It was her second day at the kindergarten, said Wu's uncle, Xue Lei.
He said Wu's face had turned pale and she found it hard to breathe about 10 minutes after the van left the kindergarten.
"However, she was not taken to hospital immediately until the van had sent two other children home," he said.
Zhu Guirong, president of Chemahu hospital, told the newspaper that Wu had no heartbeat and had lost consciousness when she was taken to the hospital about 4pm.
She was pronounced dead at 10:20pm.
Xue said Wu was a healthy child and had never suffered any chronic diseases.
Classes at the kindergarten in Rugao's Guoyuan Town were suspended while Wu's family held a funeral there on Saturday, the newspaper said.
The kindergarten, which has more than 200 children, paid the van driver about 100 yuan (US$14.6) a day to transport the children to and from home.
However, the van was unlicensed for passenger service, the report said.
Just a year before, two children fell from the same van when its door accidentally opened during the journey.
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