A seven-year-old woman died after a big sand gap she was digging along with her brother collapsed on them at a Florida seashore on Tuesday. In keeping with ABC Information, Sloan Mattingly and her brother Maddox, 9, have been pulled out of sand and brought to hospital the place she died. The incident passed off at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea – a city in Broward County about 33 miles north of Miami. Maddox was discovered buried as much as his chest and the woman was beneath him when the emergency crew reached the spot.

“Our hearts are heavy in LBTS at present after studying two kids have been trapped within the sand,” the City of Lauderdale-By-The-Sea stated in an announcement.

“The preliminary investigation revealed the youngsters, and their mother and father have been on trip from Indiana. Investigators say the youngsters have been digging a gap within the sand after they have been trapped. The circumstances into this incident stay beneath investigation,” ABC Information quoted the Broward County Sheriff’s Workplace as saying in an announcement.

A video of the incident has additionally been shared on social media by witnesses. It exhibits one of many kids being rushed away by first responders after being pulled from the opening.

“You noticed grown males digging with shovels and buckets and no person may discover her. I suppose when the wall caved in she could have been laying flat and so possibly it simply sort of pancaked her. The dad was capable of pull his son out however the daughter was nonetheless beneath the sand,” one of many people who was current advised ABC-affiliate WPLG.

Fox Information stated locals on the seashore frantically tried to dig the youngsters out of the opening.

“It was an unfathomable accident,” Sandra King, a spokesperson for Pompano Seashore Hearth Rescue, advised.

The incident stays beneath investigation, in line with police.