Three children were admitted at the Bustamante Hospital for Children in St. Andrew, and several others were treated and sent home, last night, after chlorine gas escaped at the National Stadium pool where they had gone swimming.

Major Desmon Brown, general manager of Independence Park, operators of the National Stadium complex, told The Gleaner that the pool was being chlorinated by a gas injection process when one of the lines broke and chlorine gas escaped.

He noted that by the time it was realised, it was too late to fix the problem, so the close to 30 children had to be evacuated.

Major Brown, who was at the hospital last night, was unable to say how seriously affected the children were. However, he noted that the ones who were mostly affected were asthmatic.