Tragedy at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Beach: 5-year-old Girl Dies After Falling into Sand Hole

2024-02-21 01:23:18

Researchers at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea beach take photographs of the scene of a sand collapse. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel)

Two children aged 7 and 5 who fell this Tuesday into an open hole on a beach in Broward County (USA), north of Miami, were rescued and rushed to a hospital, but doctors were unable to do so. nothing to save the girl’s life, local media reported.

The event occurred this afternoon on Lauderdale-by-the-Sea beach, in southeastern Florida, when two children who were apparently making a hole in the sand fell into a hole and were trapped.

The five-year-old girl died and the boy remains hospitalized in critical condition, said the Broward Police Department, which has not yet released the identities of the minors, reported the local channel NBCMiami.

Police officers from the aforementioned county and doctors went to the scene of the event after 3:16 p.m. local time (20:16 GMT), where, according to images collected by helicopter, a crowd of people could be seen next to the hole in an area that is cordoned off at this time.

In a video recorded by a witness, several bathers are seen digging in the sand to try to reach the children who had been swallowed by the earth and rescue them.

Several witnesses told the media that the children made a hole while playing and that it gave way and they fell inside.

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