Volunteer teacher dies in Nepal


KUALA LUMPUR: There will be no joy this Chinese New Year for the family of Jacqueline Ong, a volunteer English teacher who died from toxic poisoning caused by inhalation of smoke from charcoal briquettes used to warm her room in Nepal.

Ong, 19, left for Kathmandu on Jan 11 for a six-week volunteer programme where she was to teach English at an orphanage.

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