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Girl suffocated in over-crowded school van
A four-year-old girl died after travelling on an overcrowded school van in China.
Wu Yinuo, who had just completed her second day of kindergarten, was stuffed in a seven-seater van with some 30 children last Friday.
She suffered breathing difficulties and her face turned pale 10 minutes after the van left the pre-school, about 2km from her home, reported China Daily.
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The girl was sent to hospital at about 4pm and died six hours later.
She was believed to have died of suffocation.
Yinou's uncle Xue Lei alleged that the van driver did not attend to the girl immediately.
"The driver sent two other students back home before sending Yinou to the hospital," he told Xinhua Net.
Dr Zhu Guirong of the Che Ma Hu Hospital said the girl was unconscious and her lips had turned purple when he attended to her.
The minibus was a non-commercial vehicle that had been illegally hired by the private kindergarten in Rugao, Jiangsu province, to take the students to school and send them home.
The owners of the private kindergarten - one of the biggest in the city with some 200 students - are under police surveillance and investigations are underway.
Residents said the school van had always been over-crowded and nothing had been done despite their complaints.
They claimed that the same school van was also involved in an accident about two years ago when two children fell off the vehicle after its door was forced opened due to overcrowding.
Wu Yinuo, who had just completed her second day of kindergarten, was stuffed in a seven-seater van with some 30 children last Friday.
She suffered breathing difficulties and her face turned pale 10 minutes after the van left the pre-school, about 2km from her home, reported China Daily.
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The girl was sent to hospital at about 4pm and died six hours later.
She was believed to have died of suffocation.
Yinou's uncle Xue Lei alleged that the van driver did not attend to the girl immediately.
"The driver sent two other students back home before sending Yinou to the hospital," he told Xinhua Net.
Dr Zhu Guirong of the Che Ma Hu Hospital said the girl was unconscious and her lips had turned purple when he attended to her.
The minibus was a non-commercial vehicle that had been illegally hired by the private kindergarten in Rugao, Jiangsu province, to take the students to school and send them home.
The owners of the private kindergarten - one of the biggest in the city with some 200 students - are under police surveillance and investigations are underway.
Residents said the school van had always been over-crowded and nothing had been done despite their complaints.
They claimed that the same school van was also involved in an accident about two years ago when two children fell off the vehicle after its door was forced opened due to overcrowding.
