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01/12/2004
Police question two schoolboys following pupil's death
It has emerged that two 14-year-old pupils at a school in Greater Manchester where 15-year-old David Sandham died yesterday will be questioned by police.
The victim was involved in a fight and apparently died of a heart attack on his way to Trafford General Hospital shortly after 1pm.
According to detectives no weapons were used in the assault which followed an argument involving around five to eight children.
Staff at the school tried in vain to resuscitate David and later the headmaster offered pupils counselling to cope with the tragedy.
David was from a family of six and leaves behind one 17-year-old sister and four brothers, aged 16, 13, eight and two.
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The victim was involved in a fight and apparently died of a heart attack on his way to Trafford General Hospital shortly after 1pm.
According to detectives no weapons were used in the assault which followed an argument involving around five to eight children.
Staff at the school tried in vain to resuscitate David and later the headmaster offered pupils counselling to cope with the tragedy.
David was from a family of six and leaves behind one 17-year-old sister and four brothers, aged 16, 13, eight and two.
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