Education Director-General Khair Mohamad Yusof said based on the post-mortem, the pupils had health issues and the ministry had asked for a report on the two cases.

“What happened was unfortunate. The post-mortem found that both pupils had health issues.

“However, we will wait for further reports,” he told Malaysian journalists after attending the official meeting of the 2nd Strategic Dialogue of Education Ministers (SDEM), Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (Seameo) here today.

On Monday, a pupil of Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) Sungai Pusu, Gombak, Lyana Syaqirah Amin, 12, was said to have collapsed in class during recess time.

The school then contacted her parents before sending her to a nearby clinic. However, she was confirmed dead at the clinic at 11am while receiving medical treatment.

In the second incident yesterday, Mohd Aiman Mohd Zalizan, 12, a pupil of SK Setiawangsa in Kuala Lumpur, was said to have fallen off a chair in the school’s computer laboratory and fainted before being declared dead by a medical officer.

Khair said the schools had followed standard operating procedures set by the ministry in handling emergency cases in school.

– BERNAMA