6 Chinese university students drown on mine field trip in Inner Mongolia
One teacher was also injured in the incident, which occurred on Wednesday morning at China National Gold Group's Wunugetushan copper-molybdenum mine in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, it said.
The students, from Northeastern University in Liaoning province, drowned after a grating panel gave way and they fell into a flotation tank. They were pulled from the tank in the mine's processing plant, but could not be revived, according to Xinhua.
The report did not give further details about the victims or the incident.
State broadcaster CCTV said the regional government would launch an investigation into the incident.
The tank is used to process ore. Photo: Handout
According to the official Jimu News in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the victims were in their third year and majoring in mineral processing engineering.
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