About 300 students of the Federal Government Girls’ College in Efon Alaaye, Ekiti State, have been infected with an outbreak of a disease suspected to be cholera.

Although some of the students affected were treated and discharged, a good number were still undergoing treatment in the hospital.

There were reports that parents had started rushing to retrieve their wards from the school as news of the epidemic became widespread on Thursday.

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