SEREMBAN: A trainee from the Police Training Centre (Pulapah) in Air Hitam, near Bahau, died of acute pericarditis, or inflammation of the sac surrounding the heart, and not meningitis.
State health director Dr Zainal Ariffin Omar said the state health department had never issued any statement that the trainee, from Sabah, died due to meningitis on Thursday.
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