Injured student from Ottawa High School explosion resuscitated
Posted May 26, 2011 11:41 am.
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OTTAWA, On. — An 18-year-old student has been resuscitated after an explosion in an Ottawa high school shop class.
A 17-year-old was also taken to hospital and several other people were treated for minor injuries.
Authorities say a drum of peppermint oil exploded in the class, but it wasn’t immediately known what the oil was being used for.
Const. Marc Soucy with Ottawa Police says there was an explosion in the auto-shop class at Mother Teresa Catholic High School at 8:40 a.m. Calgary time.
Ottawa Fire Services spokesman Marc Messier tweets that there was no fire and no obvious structural damage to the school.
He says police, paramedics and the fire department are all on the scene.
The Ottawa Catholic School Board says students of Mother Teresa HS have been evacuated.
The high school is in the Ottawa suburb of Barrhaven. The school has 1,480 students and 130 staff.
