Update: Five elementary students taken to hospital for ingesting cocaine

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Five D.C. elementary school students were taken to the hospital after a student provided them with cocaine, officials said.

At about 12:30 p.m. Thursday, police got a report of several ill children at Thomson Elementary School, 1200 L Street NW, D.C. fire spokesman Pete Piringer said. About seven children complained of minor irritation to their throats after swollowing a substance provided by one student to the others, Piringer said.

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