News24 | Grade 3 boy dies after allegedly buying and eating biscuits from spaza shop in Roodepoort

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The spaza shop where the kids bought their biscuits from in Naledi.

The spaza shop where the kids bought their biscuits from in Naledi.

A Grade 3 pupil from Roodepoort has died at a local clinic, allegedly due to food poisoning.

The Gauteng Department of Education said on Friday that the boy and a fellow pupil, from Onkgopotse Tiro Primary School in Tshepisong, had bought and eaten a pack of biscuits from a local spaza shop in the area. 

Police are still to determine the official cause of death and circumstances surrounding the case.

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