Over 40 students hospitalised after gas leak at school in north Chennai’s Tiruvottiyur

Over 40 students were admitted to hospitals on Friday following a gas leak at the laboratory in a school in Tiruvottiyur. Officials are yet to identify the cause of the leak.

According to the police, the leak occurred at the chemistry laboratory of Victory Matriculation Higher Secondary School. As students in a few classrooms were exposed to the gas, parents and relatives gathered on the premises.

As a number of students reported breathing difficulty at 2.45 p.m., they were shifted to a nearby hospital. “Most of the students who were admitted were girls. Only one boy was admitted. All the students are stable. By 9 p.m., most of the students had been discharged. Only five girl students are under observation,” said Manosh Kumar, a doctor at the Government Hospital, Tiruvottiyur.