The 19-year-old suffered from heart problems and carried a pacemaker. He was evacuated to hospital, but could not be saved.
By NB with AFP
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Un drama in the middle of an exam at the Gaston-Berger high school in Lille. A 19-year-old high school student, suffering from heart problems, died on Tuesday after a heart attack which occurred during a baccalaureate test within his establishment, we learned on Wednesday from the rectorate of Lille and from an association which followed.
The student, educated at Gaston-Berger high school in the STMG terminal class, was composing at his table in the afternoon, with some 80 other high school students, when he collapsed, according to the rectorate.
Suffering from heart problems
The emergency services were contacted “directly” and the teenager was “immediately placed in a lateral safety position”, assured this same source to Agence France-Presse. He was then transferred to the Lille University Hospital, where he died a few hours later, according to the association A child, my battle, helping sick children, who had followed him since the age of 3. According to the association, the student had heart problems and was wearing a pacemaker. National Education Minister Pap Ndiaye “called the student’s mother to offer her condolences,” the ministry told AFP.