Pupils refuse to resume classes after lightning strikes and kills 2, injuring 83 others, during assembly
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Government has intervened and pleaded with learners at Chinatsa Secondary School in Marondera to resume classes after a bolt of lightning struck and killed two pupils, injuring 83 others, during a school assembly last week.
The traumatised pupils and their teachers are reportedly refusing to return to school fearing a recurrence of the incident. Primary and Secondary Education deputy minister Paul Mavhima who was accompanied by permanent secretary Sylvia Utete-Masango, Mashonaland East provincial education director, Christopher Chihota and a team of government counsellors, yesterday met parents of the affected children and teachers in a bid to convince them to resume lessons, as Chief Svosve pledged to perform rites to exorcise the institution.
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