Fire drill leaves 190 students ill in China

SHANGHAI—A fire drill at a school in northwestern China left more than 190 people injured, nine critically, after participants inhaled smoke used to simulate accident conditions, state media said on Sunday. More than 400 students at the middle school in Gansu province’s Tianshui City took part in the fire and air raid drill on Friday. “Many students began to cough and vomit after inhaling the smoke,” the report quoted the local government as saying.