Unknown gas hits school - teacher and 72 pupils in hospital

After an unknown person sprayed a strange gas in a Zabrze primary school, 73 children were hospitalized, while 500 were evacuated. Among the casualties is a teacher who remained in the school until the end of evacuation. However fourteen of them, suffering from dysponea, vomiting and breathing problems were put in the clinical ward. The remaining children are gradually being allowed home after various medical examinations. Jaroslaw Wojtasik from the press office of the local fire brigade in Katowice said, "The chemical unit is securing the area and trying to figure out what kind of gas it was." (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3; www.polskieradio.pl) M.M.