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Children dead in 4 Kindergartners’ Baking buses
Published on: 2017-07-31
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090Two-and-a-half-year-old Ren Xiangyu was helped onto a school bus by her grandmother just before 8am on July 12. Eight hours later, the bus driver found her dead - locked inside the sweltering vehicle as temperatures soared to 42 degrees Celsius.


Deaths of three other kindergartners, or preschoolers, under similar circumstances in separate instances in a span of just two weeks - all in northern China's Hebei province - have triggered an outcry nationwide on the lack of oversight of rural kindergartens in China, which serve nearly 70% of all preschoolers in China.

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Xiangyu's death on July 12, a day after her death, a 3-year-old girl was locked for six hours in a school bus operated by a rural kindergarten in Langfang, also in Hebei. When the child was discovered, her body was already stiff. Her face had turned blue and was partially covered in blood, according to the owner of a glass shop across from the kindergarten. It is unclear whether the blood was from bruises as the child struggled to get out.


Many angry netizens have pinned the blame on negligent teachers.

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"It would have never happened if anyone involved had been a bit more responsible," one internet user said on Weibo. Said another netizen: "Was it so difficult for (teachers) to make a thorough check before locking up the vehicle?"


Nearly half of all kindergarten teachers in the country teach in a rural classroom, but there is still a severe shortage of rural teachers, experts said.

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Partly in response to the public outcry, local authorities have moved swiftly, arresting several suspects. This includes the founder of Xiangyu's school, Tianbao Kindergarten. They have also suspended several officials in charge of the school.


Many kindergartens in Jingzhou village in Hebei were also told to close indefinitely pending a further investigation. It is unclear how many other schools have been affected. Authorities said only that they had discovered three kindergartens in the area, including Tianbao, had operated without a license for years, and the vehicles used to transport children weren't registered as school buses.

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