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Students collapse at Buchanan Middle School

Three eighth-graders are hospitalized after they became ill at Buchanan Middle School.
Three students got sick, and two collapsed, at Buchanan Middle School on Friday.

Tampa, Florida - Three eighth-grade girls are in the hospital after they became ill Friday at Buchanan Middle School.

Deputies now are trying to figure out what got them there. At this point we know when they came out of the bathroom, two of them collapsed.

Next thing you know school officials were calling 911 and the three girls were taken to the hospital.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff''s Office says they wrote up a possible overdose. The school says the three students had an adverse reaction to a substance, but they don't know what.

Schools spokesperson Steve Hegarty says, "We need to investigate if there was some substance that was inappropriate or illegal we need to get to the bottom of all that."

The school says it did notify parents about what was happened.

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