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Clifford Lo

An 11-year-old boy with a history of asthma problems died after collapsing during a basketball game at his school in Causeway Bay yesterday.

Primary Six pupil Ma Tsz-chung was apparently bumped into a wall during a physical education lesson by one of his classmates before fainting on the court at Buddhist Wong Cheuk Um Primary School in Eastern Hospital Road, a police spokesman said.

Initial investigations showed there were no suspicious circumstances. A postmortem examination will be carried out.

Tsz-chung collapsed soon after 11.30am. He was taken to Tang Shiu Kin Hospital, where he was declared dead.

School principal Wong Chap-fan said the school was told by hospital doctors that the boy had suffered an asthma attack.

Mr Wong added that when the incident happened, the teacher was measuring the heights and weights of some students and did not see what had happened.

'Tsz-chung's parents had informed us that he had a record of minor asthma problems,' he said. 'But they did not ask us to keep him out of physical education classes. They just asked us to pay attention to him.

'Since he joined in Primary One, he had not suffered any asthma problems at school and attended physical education classes like other students.'

Mr Wong said the boy had only taken one day's sick leave in the 2001/2002 academic year and was doing well before he attended yesterday's class.

'All of us are saddened and shocked by his death,' he said.

Tsz-chung lived in a flat in Lockhart Road, Wan Chai, with his parents and younger sister, who is a Primary Three pupil at the same school.



Schoolboy dies in basketball lesson