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23 hospitalized in US school carbon monoxide poisoning

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-02-18 12:49
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WASHINGTON: Twenty-three students and teachers were taken to a hospital in a US high school carbon monoxide incident on Wednesday, local media reported.

The incident occurred at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Derry, New Hampshire.

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One student and one teacher fainted when fire officials arrived, and many others also showed symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning, local WMUR-TV reported.

Some of those being taken to hospital were not showing symptoms, but body checks found that they had higher than normal levels of carbon monoxide in their blood, WMUR-TV quoted officials as saying.

The building has been evacuated. Firefighters and ambulances have come to the scene for emergency response.

The school has about 280 students ranging from pre-kindergarten to eighth grade.
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