12 students from Morrison Elementary school in the Olney section of Philadelphia were taken to the hospital after a stink bomb went off in the lunch room. The school, located at 300 W. Duncannon Street, was evacuated, but students returned to class around 1:30. NBC10’s Katy Zachry reports.
A dozen students were taken to the hospital after someone set off a stink bomb in the lunchroom at Morrison Elementary School in the Olney section of Philadelphia on Thursday.
The kids were being checked out for nausea and some were throwing up, according to NBC10's Katy Zachary who was on the scene around 1:00 p.m.
The school, located at 300 W. Duncannon Street, was evacuated and some parents and grandparents came to get their kids and take them home early.
A fifth grader told her grandmother that the stink bomb smelled like rotten eggs.
Around 1:30 p.m. we learned from the school that everything was under control and students were back in their classrooms. At that point in the day, the school had not released any information on who was responsible for the stink bomb.
Earlier in the day, another Philadelphia elementary school -- Sullivan Elementary in Frankford was evacuated while hazmat crews checked out an odor. They were not able to determine the source of the odor. Students were allowed back in around lunchtime. And none of those students were hurt.
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