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15-Year-Old Student Dies During PE Class at Mendoza School

Prosecutors have launched a routine cause-of-death review to determine if a medical event was responsible.

Overview

  • The student collapsed at Instituto Valentín Bonetti in Godoy Cruz on Thursday during a physical-education lesson and died while being taken to Hospital Notti.
  • Teachers and a nurse from a health center across the street performed CPR at the school, then emergency crews continued resuscitation in the ambulance.
  • Homicide prosecutor Andrea Lazo opened an inquiry labeled averiguación de causales de muerte, a standard step in Argentina used to confirm a cause of death rather than to allege a crime.
  • Police sources reported no signs of third-party involvement, and investigators are awaiting an autopsy and the teen’s health records as reports point to a likely cardiac failure in a student with asthma.
  • The school said the family had provided the required medical fitness certificate for sports, and it suspended classes as the community held a wake and a church mass to mourn the loss.