Toxins Found Across Street from School whose Students Have Fallen Ill

(Beijing) – The Ministry of Environmental Protection has found toxic chemicals in the soil under a closed pesticide factory across the street from a school in the eastern province of Jiangsu where students have developed health problems.

Students at Changzhou Foreign Languages School, a multi-lingual school for students from the seventh to 12th grades, have complained of foul-smelling air since they moved to their new campus in a suburb of Changzhou in September, Xinhua News Agency has reported.