6 schoolkids missing in flood - Philippines. 7+ schoolkids dead in flood -China

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Philippines

Six elementary school pupils were reported missing following a flashflood in a far-flung village Tuesday in Manay, Davao Oriental, police said Wednesday. Three pupils were also rescued by residents after floodwaters swept a group of pupils crossing Mambusao River in Sitio (sub-village) Mambusao, Barangay (village) Taocanga at around 12 noon, Inspector Ariel Nueva, Manay police officer-in-charge said. Nueva said the victims aged 14 and 15 years old were going home after teachers decided to suspend the afternoon classes as heavy rains were imminent. “The New Madsayap Primary School is just about 15 meters from the river and since a heavy downpour was coming, the school’s faculty decided to send the pupils home,” Nueva told the Philippine Daily Inquirer in a phone interview. Nueva said the pupils were crossing the 20-meter wide river when water levels suddenly rose, sweeping most of the victims down river. Some were able to cry for help and residents along the side of a bank threw ropes for them to hold on to, the police official said.)
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China

At least seven schoolchildren are among 10 people killed on Monday in floods caused by torrential rains in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Two other schoolchildren are missing after being swept away in flood waters, the regional bureau of education announced on Wednesday. The fatalities occurred in the cities of Wuzhou, Yulin, Hezhou and Yizhou, driving up the flood death toll in Guangxi to 24, said bureau spokesman Li Qingxian on Wednesday. Four students at the junior middle school of Liupu Town of Cangwu County, Wuzhou City, were killed and eight injured when a 3-meter-high wall built near the school canteen collapsed around 6 p.m. on Monday following days of rain. The injured are being treated in hospital. Five pupils from Daguan Primary School in Shahe Township, Bobai, Yulin City, were swept away while passing through a swelling river on their way home late on Monday. Villagers had found bodies of three of the pupils by 5 p.m. on Tuesday. No information about the other three deaths -- one in Wuzhou, one in Hezhou and one in Yizhou -- was immediately available, said Li.)
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have we lost any children in our current floods?