Nine Vietnamese secondary students drowned when swimming in a river in the country's central Quang Ngai province on Friday, Vietnam's state--run news agency reported.
Bodies of the nine victims, all sixth–graded students at a local school in the province, were retrieved from Tra Khuc river on Friday afternoon.
The rate of drowning remains high in Vietnam where there are high density of rivers and canals.
Local Tuoi Tre (the Youth) online newspaper quoted statistics showing that 32 children in Vietnam die from drowning every day, and the number of child drowning deaths per year is as high as 11, 665. Enditem
Source: Xinhua
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