‘Holding each others’ hands’: 11 children drown in Indonesia during river cleanup

Ten students were rescued after a group fell into the water, with officials saying there was no flash flooding

Eleven students drowned and 10 others were rescued during a school outing for a river cleanup in Indonesia's West Java province.

Local officials said 150 students from an Islamic high school were participating in the cleanup on Friday along the banks of the Cileueur river when 21 of them slipped into the water.