Deceased Malaysian students arrive home today

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The bodies of two Batswana students who died in Malaysia last week arrive home today. This is according to deputy permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education and Skills Development, Dr Theophilus Mooko.

He said the deceased, Olatetse Takongwa, who was doing his third year in Bachelor of Information Technology and Thatano Mokgethi also a third year student of Science in Business Computing will be in Johannesburg at 6.00am, unfortunately they could not find a flight from that point to Gaborone.

"From there they will be transported by road because we tried to make a special arrangement to have the bodies flown home but we didn't succeed," Mooko says, adding that if all goes well, the bodies will arrive around lunchtime.

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