A 17-year-old Year 11 student from a prestigious Melbourne student has died while on a school camp in South Australia.
Around 75 students of HuntingTower School, located in Melbourne’s Eastern suburb of Mount Waverly were at a school camp in Plumbago, near Broken Hill in South Australia.
Around 5.30pm on Monday evening, the school’s principal, Sholto Bowen received a phone call indicating that a teenage boy had taken ill at the camp. The group tried to get him to hospital via the Royal Flying Doctors Service but the boy never made it.
The school’s principal, Sholto Bowen has confirmed the report to media but has not made any comment on the cause of the death.
The rest of the students are now on their way home and parents have been notified of the ‘devastating incident.’
"It is with a heavy heart that I inform you of the sad passing of a year 11 student on the camp to Plumbago Station", Mr Bowen said in a statement on Tuesday.
"Our thoughts, sympathies and prayers are with the student’s family and friends, and with the students and teachers who were on the camp. The camp has been cancelled and the students are returning to Huntingtower. Counselling is being provided for the students and staff, and the wider school community,” the statement read.
The principal said it was "a very, very sad day for us," with the "loss of this wonderful young man".
South Australian police are currently preparing a report for the coroner.
