Six children drown ice skating in China

Six children have drowned while skating on a river in northern China.

The children aged 5 to 11 were skating together Saturday afternoon near a village in Pingyao county in Shanxi province.

After residents alerted police, rescuers were sent to the scene. About an hour later, they pulled four bodies from the river.

It took another few hours to find the bodies of the remaining two children.

A county government statement says an investigation is ongoing. Calls to the authority and police rang unanswered Sunday.