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Police investigate death of Form One student in school

A police officer at Kisumu Girls High School. Investigations into the death of a Form One student are ongoing. (Collins Oduor, Standard)

Police are investigating the death of a Form One student at Kisumu Girls High School. According to police sources, Anastasia Chepkemoi, 13, died at Kisumu County Hospital where she was rushed after she was found weakened and sluggish by her fellow students as they went for breakfast on Friday morning.

Although the school did not release an official statement on the matter, the Nyanza regional police Commander Vincent Makokha, who was among the first officers to visit the school said she had been on Malaria drugs since the school reopened for second term.

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