Eight students hospitalised due to explosion

18 July 2017 12:12 pm

At least eight students of the Kokkilai Sinhala school in Mullaithivu had been hospitalised following an explosion at a garbage dump at the school.

The explosion occurred, when the students participating in a dengue eradication programme at the school cleared a block land.

Mancholai Hospital sources said students were not physically injured but were admitted for shock. (Romesh Madusanka)