Ten officials held responsible for last year's flooding accident
in northeast China's
Heilongjiang Province that killed 105 students have either been
given prison sentences or administrative demerits, yesterday's
Workers Daily reported.
A flood inundated a low-lying primary school in Shalan Township,
Ning'an City in Heilongjiang Province on June 10 last year. A total
of 352 students and 31 teachers were at school when the flood
struck. More than 200 houses in the township were affected by the
flood, of which 55 collapsed.
Zhu Nazheng, secretary of the Ning'an Municipal Committee of the
Communist Party of China (CPC), and Ning'an Vice Mayor Dong Yiwan
have been given administrative demerits for dereliction of duty.
Huang Mingjun, secretary of the Shalan Township Committee of the
CPC, and Li Zuoyu, director of the Shalan Police Station, are on
probation within the party for dereliction of duty. Li Cunze, head
of the Ning'an Water Affairs Bureau, has been sentenced to one year
in prison with one year's reprieve for abuse of power. Li Dedong,
the former vice secretary of the Shalan Township Committee of the
CPC, Liu Liyun, principal of the Shalan Primary School, and other
officials concerned have either been sacked or sentenced to
imprisonment.
The sentencing was made following more than half a year of
investigation.
(Shenzhen Daily March 16, 2006)
