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21 students faint in mass hysteria at school

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October 24, 2025

Twenty-one senior high school students from three campuses of a private school reportedly fainted during an alleged case of mass hysteria in Barangay Sagua Banwa, Valladolid town, Negros Occidental province, on Wednesday night, Oct. 22.

- By GLAZYL MASCULINO

Al John Gegonia, operations and warning officer of the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (MDRRMO), said the incident occurred during the school's intramurals, which gathered about 200 Grades 11 and 12 students from Valladolid, Bacolod, and Ilog campuses.

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