Officials punished in 5 deaths

Questions raised over why boys found dead in dumpster were not in school

Eight people, including government officials and school principals, have been disciplined over the deaths of five street children last week in Southwest China's Guizhou province, local authorities said on Tuesday.

Five boys, ranging in age from 9 to 13, were found dead in a dumpster in the Qixingguan district of Bijie, a mountainous city in Guizhou, by a trash collector on Friday morning.