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Three first-grade students at Winterberry Charter School in Anchorage Alaska have been suspended after plotting to poison and kill a classmate, the school principal says.

In a bizarre case, Alaska police say there was a plot among the students to harm a classmate at the school last week. The substance the children planned to use as a poison, silica gel, is generally considered to be non-toxic but the students believed it was harmful, according to a letter the school sent to parents.

Officials says a fellow student alerted adults when he or she learned of the plan.

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