21 students receive treatment after inhaling pesticide fumes


  • Nation
  • Thursday, 18 Jul 2019

PORT DICKSON: Twenty-one students at SK Linggi near here had to be treated at a government clinic after they became nauseated and began vomiting after inhaling pesticide fumes after the chemical was sprayed at a nearby chilli farm. 

Port Dickson OCPD Supt Aidi Sham Mohamed said 10 of them were later taken to the Port Dickson Hospital for further outpatient treatment. 

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