Children Left Vomiting After Chemical Spill at Swimming Pool
On 4/1/21 at 9:21 AM EDT
Dozens of children on a school trip to a swimming pool in New Zealand were left vomiting and struggling to breathe after a suspected chlorine spill. Eleven of the children had to be hospitalized.
Emergency services arrived at the H2O Xtream Aquatic Centre in Upper Hutt, north of the capital city Wellington, on Thursday afternoon to treat the children.
A registered nurse, who declined to give her name, told the Kiwi news outlet Stuff that she saw about 40 children go down a slide and then become ill. One boy, aged about nine, fainted.