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Urgent reviews to be carried out after girl dies in wall collapse

Urgent building reviews are to be carried out after a 12-year-old pupil died at school when a wall within a PE changing room collapsed. The girl, named locally and on social media as Keane Wallis-Bennett, was pronounced dead at Liberton High School in edinburgh shortly before 10am yesterday.

Pupils were sent home early, while police and health and safety officials launched an inquiry. Edinburgh City Council said the wall was a "free standing modesty wall" and all other such walls in other schools are to be checked by building surveyors. The school will not reopen this week and a full council survey of Liberton High will be completed before pupils return from the easter holidays in three weeks. Tributes left on Facebook to Keane included: "Sleep tight beautiful," while another message reads: "no child should go to school and not return home."

A bunch of flowers left under the school entrance sign had a message which read: "rest in peace Keane. God has gained another angel." The incident comes just weeks after Edinburgh City Council was fined for an incident at the same school in which a girl was seriously injured when she fell down a broken-down lift shaft.