{"id":2925,"date":"2026-03-04T18:13:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2026-03-05T19:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:33:13","slug":"16-year-old-collapses-dies-at-chikupili-secondary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=2925","title":{"rendered":"16-YEAR-OLD COLLAPSES, DIES AT CHIKUPILI SECONDARY SCHOOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grief has engulfed Chikupili Secondary School in Luano District, Central Province, following the sudden death of a 16-year-old pupil who collapsed on the school premises.<\/p>\n<p>The form 2 learner is reported to have collapsed around 14:00 hours on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to her uncle, Lastone Chitebete, who is a former Head teacher at the school, the girl Mizilia Mulamata, had shown no signs of illness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe reported for classes in the morning and appeared perfectly fine. There was nothing unusual about her health or behaviour,\u201d Mr Chitebete who is the uncle of the deceased said.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that he was at home when he received a distress call from a teacher, informing him that the learner had collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chitebete explained that he rushed to the school and immediately transported her to Chikupili Rural Health Post, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.<\/p>\n<p>And Central Province Police Commanding Officer, Lemakani Chirwa, said police received the report of Sudden and Unnatural Death through Masansa Police Post which is under Mkushi police station.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chirwa disclosed that matter was reported by Mr Chitebeta, aged 60, of Chikupili area in Mkushi district.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the deceased was staying with the reporter, who is a retired teacher at Chikupili Secondary School where she was learning in Form 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe now deceased went to school and knocked off at 13:00 hrs. She went home, but later returned to the school to see her aunt who is the reporter\u2019s wife Eunice Chimika, a teacher at the same school,\u201d said Mr Chirwa.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the reporter was later informed that his niece had collapsed, upon which he took her to the clinic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Brought In Dead (BID) certificate was issued, the deceased&#8217;s body was deposited at Masansa Mini Hospital awaiting post-mortem examination to establish the cause of death and burial. The Inquiry File has been opened,\u201d said Mr Chirwa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grief has engulfed Chikupili Secondary School in Luano District, Central Province, following the sudden death of a 16-year-old pupil who collapsed on the school premises. The form 2 learner is reported to have collapsed around 14:00 hours on Tuesday. According to her uncle, Lastone Chitebete, who is a former Head teacher at the school, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2927,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions\/2927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}