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Staff photo / The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Police Department is seen on May 31, 2023. UTC police are investigating an "isolated incident" last week that left two students injured.
Staff photo / The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Police Department is seen on May 31, 2023. UTC police are investigating an "isolated incident" last week that left two students injured.

Campus police are investigating after two students at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga were injured by burns.

The students were injured in the early hours of Sept. 25, according to a statement from Brett Fuchs, spokesperson for the university’s office of emergency management.

“Generally, they’re OK,” Fuchs said by phone. “But I think there’s gonna be some medical issues, but we don’t know anything for sure.”

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It was an isolated incident, Fuchs said in the statement. By phone, he said it’s not clear when it happened because it was reported after the fact.