South Korean school cancel class over radiation rain fears from Japan

More than 100 South Korean schools have cancelled or shortened classes over fears that rain falling across the country may include radiation from Japan's stricken nuclear plant

The Education Office of Gyeonggi province says it allowed schools to decide whether to open on Thursday.

The South Korean prime minister's office says radiation levels in the rain are low and pose no health threat.

However 126 schools in Gyeonggi province shut down and 43 others shortened class hours as a precaution. The province is near Seoul.

The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology says only a few schools outside Gyeonggi cancelled classes Thursday.

Nuclear safety experts have said that radiation leaking into the air and water from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex do not pose a health threat outside the evacuation zone around the plant, which now stands at 12 miles.