Society

Six children drowned in east China

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-07-02 07:39

HEFEI -- Six teenagers, two boys and four girls, drowned Wednesday when swimming in a pond in east China's Anhui Province, local authorities said Thursday.

At 10:38 am Wednesday, the county's public security bureau received a call saying seven children went missing while swimming in Qingquan Village of Wangjiang County, said a spokesman with the county government.

On Wednesday afternoon, rescuers recovered the bodies of six missing children, while reporting that another child survived, said the spokesman.

The police investigation showed the children died from drowning.

The dead children, aged 13 to 19, were from Huayang and Taici townships of Wangjiang County. Two of them were identified as students.