Chinese pupils forced to live in rooms converted from smelly toilets in overcrowded school

A secondary school in southwestern China has converted toilets into rooms for its pupils.

The Tongren City No 15 Secondary School in Guizhou province converted the toilets within a dormitory building into bedrooms to house its overwhelming intake of pupils, the Beijing Youth Daily reported.

Photos posted online showed beds put over squat toilets that were filled with cement.

Pupils took to the internet to complain about the foul odour that persisted in their rooms, where bunk beds had been installed in spaces that were previously used as toilets.

“Our school told us that we are here to study, not to enjoy life and that we should overcome the hardship,” one pupil, who declined to be named, told the newspaper.