Overview
- Police found an empty pepper spray can near a boys’ washroom and are investigating it after initial checks did not confirm a lab leak.
- Nineteen students at Lions Public School in Sandila reported coughing, uneasiness and fainting around 10 am, and officials say all are stable and due for discharge.
- Nine students were referred to King George’s Medical University in Lucknow for evaluation, updating earlier reports that one child had been sent.
- Teachers and senior students evacuated classmates and transported the affected children to nearby hospitals, where a sudden influx prompted a rapid medical response.
- District Magistrate Anunay Jha and SP Ashok Kumar Meena visited the site, a formal probe is underway, the chief minister has sought a thorough investigation, and some parents have alleged negligence by the school.