Some of the heaviest snow in decades in norther China has killed 38 people, mainly in road accidents, but four of the dead are children who died when school cafeterias caved in, in Hebei and Henan provinces. The children’s deaths raises anew the question of safety in school building throughout the country. The government has said shoddy building, sometimes due to corruption, played a role in the deaths of thousands of children when schools collapsed in Sichuan during a major earthquake in 2008.
Links to other sites: BBC, China Daily
Posted by Ellen Wallace on 13 November 2009 at 11:55 |
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News story, GenevaLunch, 13 November 2009.
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Tags: children, China, deaths, heavy snow, schools collapse
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