HO CHI MINH CITY, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- Five children have drowned while taking a swim in a pond in Vietnam's southern An Giang province, Vietnam News Agency reported Sunday.
The five victims, aged between two and 12, and all from a residential area in Tinh Bien district, grouped to swim in a pond in the locality on Sunday afternoon.
Discovering the incident, local residents reached out to take the victims to a nearby health center but could not save them, the news agency quoted competent authorities as reporting.
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