The likely cause of death offour teenage boys who were found dead in a carduring a camping trip accident in the U.K. has been revealed.

At an inquest into the high school students' deaths on Wednesday, a coroner said the provisional cause of death was drowning, according to theBBC.

Police in Wales previously said the bodies of Wilf Fitchett, Jevon Hirst, Harvey Owen and Hugo Morris, who were aged between 16 and 18, had been recovered from a vehicle that appeared to have left the road in astatementshared on Facebook.

The car was found upside down and partially submerged in a body of water on Tuesday, Nov. 21.

PerThe Guardian, Kate Robertson, senior coroner for north-west Wales, told the inquest, “The four young men were traveling in a vehicle along the A4085 at Llanfrothen when the vehicle has left the road. The circumstances of which resulted in the deaths of all four occupants."

The four teenagers bodies were found in a car in North Wales on Nov. 21.Press Association via AP Images

a photo of the four teenagers, Jevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Wilf Fitchett, and Hugo Morris, who died in a car crash in Snowdonia, North Wales

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“Postmortem examinations have been undertaken and the provisional causes of death provided, pending inquests.”

No date has been set for the full hearings, according toThe Guardian.

The vehicle the boys were traveling in was found upside down and partially submerged in a body of water.PA Video/PA Images via Getty Images

Screen grab taken from PA Video of the scene in Gwynedd, North Wales, where police officers are searching for four young men, Jevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Wilf Henderson and Hugo Morris, who have been missing since Sunday morning.

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“I just wanted to say I do appreciate people’s kindness but no amount of messages is going to help me overcome this. Nothing will make this nightmare go away,” she added.

Wilf Fitchett’s girlfriend Maddi Corfield alsohonored her boyfriend’s lifeon social media. “I’m going to miss you forever,” she wrote on Instagram, according to the BBC andSky News, calling him, “The sweetest and most loving boy I’ve ever known.”

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Harvey Owen; Jevon Hirst; Hugo Morris; Wilf Fitchett

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“I can’t imagine my world without you,” Corfield added. “I’m missing you so much already, but I am going to enjoy life the way you would’ve wanted, the way that you made me feel.”

It’s believed the boys, who were from the same school in England, were camping in the Eryri area of Wales, also known as Snowdonia. They were reported missing on Sunday 19. Nov.

The coroner’s office for north-west Wales did not immediately reply to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

source: people.com