Kumasi Academy students sent home following death of 3 students

Students of Kumasi Academy Senior High School in the Asokore Mampong Municipality of Ashanti Region have been sent home after they stage a protest on Friday over suspected mysterious death in the School.

The protesting students vandalised school properties including two buses.

Angry parents also stormed the school to take their wards back home as students protest against school authorities over the development.

Police were deployed overnight to ensure calm and also protect lives and properties.

The school authorities say only the form three students will stay behind because they will be writing their WASSCE exams on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the Assistant Headmaster (Academics) of the school, Ernest Wiafe, denied reports that the students died as a result of food poisoning.

"We do not know the cause of death. However, they did not die in the school here. These are students who fell sick, reported at the sick bay, they were given first aid, the nurses sought the permission of their respective house heads, they went home, they were taken to hospital but unfortunately passed on at those health facilities,” he told the media.

He also noted that the Municipal Health Directorate has taken over to investigate the cause of the deaths and make it public.

He stressed that "It is now too early for anyone to conclude on the cause of the deaths."