165 students remain in hospital after botched China fire drill

Around 165 students continued to be in hospital, 10 of them in critical condition, after inhaling smoke during a fire drill at their school in China's northwestern Gansu Province.
The 165 students of the junior middle school in Tianshui City are at four hospitals, with 90 of them under less intense medical observation, an official statement said today.
The government said 412 students participated in the drill yesterday, which used smoke guns to simulate fire.
Many of them began to cough and vomit after inhaling the smoke, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
An expert panel dispatched by the National Health and Family Planning Commission arrived in Tianshi early today to assist in the treatment.