Apparent pesticide dump sees 10 Carterton students sent to hospitalPiers Fuller Neve and Bronwyn Pogson, Kim McKinley and Amber Pogson heading home from South End School. Ten children have been sent to hospital after reports a plane "accidentally sprayed" two Carterton schools with pesticide. South End School principal Claire Crawford said while everyone was "totally safe", everyone was "just trying to sort out what caused this". Some people said it smelt a bit like chemicals.”Louisa Newman lives about a block away from South End School. ^EW pic.twitter.com/s5d7FvFAes — NZTA Wellington (@NZTAWgtn) September 21, 20181 NEWS This follows a report of an aircraft dropping an unknown substance near the Carterton school.

Source: Stuff September 21, 2018 04:11 UTC