Yesterday , three female students of Phwadzi Catholic Community Day Secondary School (CDSS) in Chikwawa District suffocated while in class, a development school authorities have attributed to excessive heat.

Headmaster Jailos Lambiki has identified the students as Mary Loya and Doreen Mbewe, both aged 15 of Form Three and Mary Mackjones,13, who is in Form One.

Lambiki said this happened in the morning hours between 10 and 11 o’clock.

The headmaster added that all the three students are in stable condition after being rescuscited using first aid but the third one had to be rushed to the nearby Misomali Health Centre after she complained of headache upon being resuscitsted.