There was confusion at Ogba Junior Grammar School, Lagos, on Thursday after about 25 students and two teachers fell unconscious.
It all began at about 12
noon, the students and teachers were in the school when they began to
feel dizzy and collapsed after inhaling the emission from chemical
spread to their school premises by air.
Following the incident, some of the teachers raised an alarm which attracted some members of the public, who immediately called officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency on their toll free lines.
The unconscious students and teachers were immediately rushed to Blue Cross Hospital, located opposite the shopping mall for urgent medical attention.
have engulfed the entire school.
One of the officials of LASEMA says the gas emission was traced to Bizcircuit Colour Laboratory, located within the premises of Ogba Shopping Mall just at the back of the school. According to the official, the chemical in the lab may have expired.