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Lucy Skoulding

Teen, 15, dies after symptoms on overseas school trip blamed on 'homesickness'

A teenager on an overseas school trip died after he was told his symptoms were simply "homesickness".

Timothy Fehring, from Victoria, Australia, was on an abroad trip with Blackburn High School when he became to feel unwell.

During the school trip to Vienna, Austria, the 15-year-old was repeatedly vomiting into street bins as he battled an illness - but he was encouraged to keep participating in the planned activities.

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