new, first time, watch on YouTube, just,Six children drowned in frozen river in north China"Six children, aged from five to 11, drowned while skating on a frozen river in Pingyao county, Shanxi province, on Saturday afternoon. The children fell into the water as they skated on the thin icy surface of the Nanzheng village section of the Huiji River, a tributary of the Fen River, the county government said. County police received the accident report before 5pm. An hour later, four of the children were found. The remaining two were found at around 7.30pm. They were taken to two hospitals, but none survived. An official in charge of county publicity told the South China Morning Post that five of the children were cousins and one was a neighbour's child. Critics have slammed the county government's inefficiency in bringing help to the children, but the official said all rescue work had to first guarantee rescuers' safety. Saturday's tragedy was the latest in a spate of drownings of children. On January 17, a girl and her two brothers drowned in Maoming , Guangdong, after falling into water while picking wormwood leaves. Two days later, four children - the oldest aged 13 - from Huilai drowned while playing in a fishing pond. On January 21, another four children from Huozhou , Shanxi, fell into the frozen Fen River while playing on the ice. The string of recent drownings prompted the Ministry of Education to issue a circular last month, urging parents to supervise their children's safety and teach them not to play near waterways without barriers or on frozen rivers. A guideline issued by the National Health and Family Planning Commission three years ago said drowning was the leading cause of death on the mainland among children under 14. This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as Six children drown after skating on thin iceChina: Six Children Drown In Skating Accident. Six children have drowned while ice skating on a frozen river in northern China. The children, aged between five ... Six children drowned on Saturday in a river in Pingyao County, north China's Shanxi Province, the local government said.The youngsters, aged from 5 to 11, fell into the water while ice skating on a frozen. ... Drumming up passion for the Six children, aged from five to 11, drowned while skating on a frozen river in Pingyao county, Shanxi province, on Saturday afternoon.ix children drowned on Saturday in a river in Pingyao County, north China's Shanxi Province, the local government said. The youngsters, aged from 5 to 11, fell into the water while ice skating on a frozen section of the Huiji River in Nanzheng Village, witnesses were quoted as saying. Police received a call about the incident at 4:47pm and immediately dispatched an emergency response team. The bodies of four of the children were pulled from the river within the first 90 minutes of the operation, while the two others were recovered later by frogmen from under the ice. All six were pronounced dead on arrival at hospital. Police are investigating.

• published: 23 Feb 2014
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