Four high school students drowned on Tuesday in East China's Anhui province, China News Service reported.
The students, all in their first year at a senior high school in Langxi county, were pronounced dead at a hospital after they were pulled from a pond by police and firefighters at 5:40 pm.
Education experts have called on elementary and middle schools to include swimming lesson in their curriculum.
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