<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>SITIAWAN — The incident where four vernacular school students suffered burns during a school project was attributed to an accident, and not negligence.
Perak Education, Technology, Science, Environment and Information committee chairman Dr Abdul Aziz B<wm>adiya attributed the outbreak of the incident to the ‘unnatural and unclean environment that has prevailed in some parts of the town’s industrial areas.

He said that the issue of accidents in schools was one major cause for public concern.

According to Dr Aziz, the causes can be attributed to the unusual temperature during the day (high of over 38.6°C) which increased the consumption of the ‘miserably unsanitary and polluted water’, resulting in skin burn on the eyes of</wm> the pupils.

“Each year every year some of our students in some parts of the town go for