Pupil dies after falling ill in detention at Tower Hamlets school

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Pupil dies after falling ill in detention at Tower Hamlets school

Nasar Ahmed was reported ill last Thursday at Bow School in Tower Hamlets, east London, and died in hospital on Monday.

It is understood he was in an exclusion group with three other students, doing school work under a teacher's supervision, when he started having breathing problems and 999 was called.

The boy was severely asthmatic, the BBC reported.

Bow School is a mixed secondary school with around 500 students aged 11 to 18.

In a statement the school's executive headteacher, Cath Smith, said: "I am very sad to confirm that one of our Year 9 pupils, who was taken ill at school last Thursday, has passed away in hospital.

"The whole school community sends our thoughts and prayers to him, and to his family.

"We will continue to offer support to the family, his fellow pupils and teachers at this difficult time.

"We will, of course, co-operate fully with investigations into the circumstances of this tragic incident and will also carry out a thorough review of what happened ourselves."

A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said: "We were informed on Sunday November 13 that a child was being treated in an east London hospital after being taken unwell at a school in Tower Hamlets on Thursday November 10.

"On Monday November 14 the 14-year-old boy died. His next of kin have been informed.

"The death is being treated as unexplained at this time."

She added that a post-mortem examination would be carried out.

The school was given a "Good" rating in its last Ofsted inspection in 2013.

It changed its name from the Bow School of Maths and Computing to Bow School in February 2013 and moved to its current site in Twelvetrees Close in 2014.