Oklahoma Students In China Missed Earthquake

A group of Tulsa school students and their teachers from Hoover Elementary who have been in China since last week are safe, despite word of a powerful earthquake in China. 

The death toll from that earthquake overnight in China continues to climb. 

School officials say the Tulsa group of 10 students and 6 teachers are getting ready to return home.  Hoover principal Chris Clark says he talked with the group Monday morning and they told him they are all safe. 

Clark says the group was in Shanghai at the time of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake.  The quake itself was center in the Sichuan province, west of Shanghai.

Earlier this month, NewsOn6.com anchor Margaret Stokes sat down with the students to talk about their China trip.  [Click here to read that story]  

While in China, Clark says the group of 4^th and 5^th graders visited with their sister school. Clark says students at their sister school are alright as well.

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