Diving firm fined after eight Manchester school pupils rushed to hospital in swimming pool horror
One boy was face down in the water , another stopped breathing
06:38, 30 JUL 2021
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05:49 EDT, 30 July 2021
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A diving firm gave eight children carbon monoxide poisoning including one who was left fighting for his life in a coma - but its director has avoided jail.
Two boys, aged 14 and 15, had to be pulled from The Manchester Grammar School s on-site pool after becoming seriously ill in the water, and a further six pupils were rushed to hospital following the class.
One of the boys was placed in an induced coma after medics described his injuries as life-threatening .
The teenagers were exposed to high levels of deadly fumes through the air tanks they were using during the lesson in June 2017, a court heard.
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