School girl drops dead after test

A Saudi school girl died just after she finished doing a test during the first semester examination at a girls school in the Gulf Kingdom.

The girl in the elementary class had asked the teacher to let her go to the bathroom after fishing the test but she never returned to class.

“The girl was later found lying motionless in the bathroom…she was rushed to hospital but was already dead,” Okaz newspaper said in a report from the central town of Dawami. It did not specify the girl’s age or mention the cause of the death.

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