JOHOR BAHRU: Malaysia’s education ministry on Wednesday ordered 34 schools to shut after aleft hundreds of people being treated for methane poisoning.
"I've ordered for all schools within a three-kilometre radius to be shut immediately. Teachers also don't need to be on duty because the situation is still dangerous.” “As the Department of Environment has completed the investigation, we will go ahead and prosecute but it is not limited to this law. The person can be charged under the Penal Code and, possibly, other laws too," she said., after students and school employees breathed in methane fumes from chemicals that were illegally dumped in the nearby Sungai Kim Kim.A, as hundreds suffered methane poisoning.
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