Twenty-four students of a municipal school in Delhi's Naraina area were taken ill on Friday allegedly due to a gas leak incident nearby, news agency PTI reported citing officials. Nineteen students were rushed to the RML Hospital while the rest nine were sent to the Acharya Shree Bhikshu Hospital, a senior official of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi told PTI.
Following the incident, Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi took to X, formerly Twitter, and said that 23 children were rushed to hospital after a gas leakage occurred at a municipal school near the railway line in Naraina. She further said that eight of the affected children were admitted to Acharya Bhikshu Hospital and the remaining 15 children were admitted to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.
"23 children had to be admitted to the hospital after gas leakage reached a municipal school near the railway line in Narayana, Delhi. Eight children are admitted to Acharya Bhikshu Hospital, and their condition is stable. 15 children are admitted to RML Hospital, of whom 2 are anxious and on oxygen support," said in a tweet in Hindi.
"The students fell sick apparently due to some gas leak incident near the school. All students are fine, they are being attended to by doctors at the two hospitals," he said, as quoted by PTI. Officials from the civic health department rushed to the two hospitals and also to the school and the education department of the MCD is also on the job, the official added. "We will be probing from our level too as to what caused this incident," he said.
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