{"id":101142,"date":"2017-05-06T09:28:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T13:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=101142"},"modified":"2017-05-06T09:28:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T13:28:58","slug":"85-students-hospitalised-after-gas-leakage-in-south-east-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/06\/85-students-hospitalised-after-gas-leakage-in-south-east-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"85 students hospitalised after gas leakage in south-east Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_101143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101143\" style=\"width: 603px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Location_map_India_Delhi_EN.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101143\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Location_map_India_Delhi_EN.svg_.png\" alt=\"Eighty-five school students were hospitalised Saturday after they complained of irritation in the eyes due to gas leakage from a container depot near their school in southeast Delhi's Tughlakabad area. (Photo by Philg88 (Own work) [CC BY 4.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0) or ODbL (http:\/\/opendatacommons.org\/licenses\/odbl\/1.0\/)])\" width=\"603\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Location_map_India_Delhi_EN.svg_.png 603w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Location_map_India_Delhi_EN.svg_-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Location_map_India_Delhi_EN.svg_-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eighty-five school students were hospitalised Saturday after they complained of irritation in the eyes due to gas leakage from a container depot near their school in southeast Delhi&#8217;s Tughlakabad area. (Photo by<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ALocation_map_India_Delhi_EN.svg\"> Philg88 (Own work) [CC BY 4.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0) or ODbL (http:\/\/opendatacommons.org\/licenses\/odbl\/1.0\/)])<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>NEW DELHI\u2014Eighty-five school students were hospitalised Saturday after they complained of irritation in the eyes due to gas leakage from a container depot near their school in southeast Delhi&#8217;s Tughlakabad area.<\/p>\n<p>The Delhi government has ordered a magisterial probe into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police, a call was received at around 7:35 a.m. about chemical leakage at customs area of Tughlaqabad depot, which is located near Rani Jhansi School for girls run by the city government.<\/p>\n<p>Following the incident, teams of police and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) as well as CATS ambulance reached the spot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some chemical leakage at customs area of Tughlaqabad depot has caused eye irritation to the girl students in Rani Jhansi school,&#8221; DCP (Southeast) Romil Baaniya said.<\/p>\n<p>The students were admitted to three hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>The police said that the source of leakage is yet to be ascertained.<\/p>\n<p>According to Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, the students are fine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eighty-five girl students, who had complained of irritation in their eyes due to gas leakage, have been admitted to three hospitals. I spoke to doctors who told me that they are normal,&#8221; Sisodia, who also holds the education portfolio, said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he has ordered the area&#8217;s district magistrate and SDM to launch a probe into the gas leakage incident at the container depot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was an exam in the school which we have cancelled following the incident,&#8221; the deputy chief minister said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI\u2014Eighty-five school students were hospitalised Saturday after they complained of irritation in the eyes due to gas leakage from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":101143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[18752],"class_list":["post-101142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-gas-leakage","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}