A youngster from London was found underwater after he vanished whilst swimming on a faculty trip.
Eugene Enoch Kwon, 17, from Hampton in London, was snorkelling with schoolmates on a camping trip to Malawi on Tuesday.
A search was launched in Monkey Bay in Lake Malawi, and he was found underwater.
He was rushed to hospital but died. His reason for death was suffocation attributable to drowning, police said.
Supt Patrick Mussa, of the Malawi Police Service’s Eastern Region Police Headquarters, said the boy’s disappearance prompted an ‘immediate search operation’.
He added: ‘After an intensive search, divers positioned him underwater.’
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‘Police within the Eastern Region have since expressed their condolences to the bereaved family, while investigations into the incident proceed.’
A spokesperson for Hampton School, a non-public school for boys in Richmond upon Thames, confirmed that one in every of its students had died on the college camping trip.
The spokesperson added: ‘Our thoughts, love and deepest sympathies are with the pupil’s family and family members at this unimaginably difficult time.
‘At present, our focus is supporting the pupil’s family and everybody affected inside our faculty community.’
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