Five candidates of Makande Girls Secondary School in Mombasa are admitted at Makadara General Hospital after they were exposed to a suspected gas leak from a neighbouring dealer shop.
According to reliable reports, the leak spread in the school as a Kiswahili paper was going on yesterday, forcing examination officials to disrupt it when the girls began to faint.
With 90 candidates registered for the examinations this year, emergency responses had to be called to restore normalcy, including transferring the remaining students to the nearby Makande Boys to finish the day’s exams.
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Contacted for comment, the exam officials revealed that the sick candidates will be allowed to finish their disrupted paper and continue with the rest once they get better.
Meanwhile, investigations by authorities have been launched to establish the cause of the hitch for corrective measures to be taken.
This year’s KCSE exams have seen a number of ominous events, including the death and hospitalization of candidates for diverse reasons, ranging from sudden illnesses to pregnancy.
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