Across China: Shaanxi

Jail for school officials

A court yesterday sentenced three school officials and a teacher to jail over last year's carbon monoxide poisoning in which 11 students at a northwest China school died.

The People's Court in Dingbian county of Shaanxi province handed down jail terms from three to five years to principal Zhao Binghong and vice principal Han Huilong of Duiziliang School, the dead students' teacher Song Xiaoyan and school official Zhou Wanqi, who was in charge of logistics, on Monday.