A boy was also buried, but was rescued from the hole.
A teenage girl died and her brother was hospitalized after falling into a hole in the sand at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Beach in Florida on Tuesday.
Sloan Mattingly, 5, and Maddox Mattingly, 9, were pulled from the sand and taken to a hospital, but police later confirmed the girl died at the hospital.
Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Town said in a statement, “Our hearts are heavy at LBTS today after learning that two children were trapped in the sand.
“Preliminary investigations indicate the children and their parents were on vacation from Indiana. Investigators say the children were digging a hole in the sand when they became trapped. The circumstances of the incident are under investigation,” the Broward County Sheriff's Office said. A statement.
Around 3 pm, the police received information that two children were trapped in the sand
A witness He shared the video with Miami ABC affiliate WPLG It shows one of the children being rushed by first responders after being pulled from the hole.
“You saw grown men digging with shovels and buckets and no one could find her,” one witness told WPLG. “I think she was probably flattened when the wall was in the hole, so it kind of hurt her. The father was able to pull his son out, but the daughter was still under the sand.”
