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Fifteen students taken to hospital after eating lollies on Townsville school bus

Emergency services were called to Bluewater State School at about 10am. (ABC North Qld: Jade Toomey)

Fifteen primary school students have been hospitalised after falling ill from eating lollies on a Queensland school bus.

The incident in Townsville has prompted the local hospital to activate a Code Brown to deal with an "external emergency". 

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