Children hospitalzied after march rehearsal in Kazakhstan

Eight schoolchildren were hospitalized after rehearsals for the festive march dedicated to May 7th in Uralsk, the Health Department of the West Kazakhstan Region reports.

The first call to an ambulance was received today at 9.12 am from a teacher who reported a child received a head injury. When the doctors arrived at the emergency site, other children began to complain feeling dizzy.

"As a result, one child was hospitalised with a closed craniocerebral trauma, and seven more students were diagnosed with fatigue and taken to the regional multipurpose children's hospital, ‘’ Sputnik Kazakhstan  quotes spokeswoman for the health department Aynagul Sakpusunova as saying.