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Two KCSE candidates die after drinking ethanol at school

Confiscated Ethanol. [File, Standard]

Two Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) candidates died while 11 others were admitted to hospital after consuming ethanol at their school's laboratory.

The students from Karigini Mixed Day Secondary School in Muthambi Sub County in Tharaka Nithi County consumed the product on Thursday but were taken to the Chuka Referral Hospital on Friday after developing serious symptoms.

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