The victim’s colleague students, who attended to him until his father arrived on campus to convey him to a health facility where he later died, said the school authorities left the patient to his fate despite reeling under intense pain with vomiting bouts.
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KNUST SHS students protest over death of ‘abandoned’ colleague
A Business student of KNUST Senior High School in the Ashanti Region died on Tuesday, 7 July 2020 after suffering stomach pains for more than three hours without being given any medical attention.
KNUST student who passed strangely
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According to the angry students, who went on the rampage following their colleague’s death, the school authorities shunned the now-deceased out of fear of contracting COVID-19.
The students vented their spleen on the headteacher’s car by smashing the windows with stones.
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Armed police officers had to intervene to restore calm on campus.
#StudentsLivesMatter campaign launched as KNUST SHS students protest death of colleague
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Meanwhile students of the school have launched a campaign, dubbed, #StudentsLivesMatter.
The campaign is in protest of the death of their colleague.
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