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A sand hole on the beach in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea in the US state of Florida became a death trap for little Sloan (7).
© gofundme.com/Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel/AP/dpa
For a family from the USA, a trip to the beach turned into a deadly nightmare.
The daughter (7) dies, the son (9) barely survives.
Apparently not an isolated case.
Fort Lauderdale – In the USA, a family wanted to spend a relaxing vacation in Florida.
Your destination: The beach at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.
But a tragic accident occurred there, which the little daughter (7) did not survive.
She was buried alive by a sand hole and was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
A father recently had to endure an equally fatal drama on a skiing holiday in which his daughter died.
Girl (7) digs in the sand with her brother on the beach and is buried - she dies
Seven-year-old Sloan had been playing on the beach with her brother Maddox, who was two years older.
The siblings were digging in the sand there.
According to consistent TV reports, the boy and the girl dug a hole in the sand, which, according to initial findings, was up to 1.80 meters deep.
The sand hole fatally collapsed and became a deadly trap.
According to an eyewitness, the seven-year-old was trapped under the sand for an estimated 15 minutes, he told the TV station
Local10
.
Only then were rescue workers able to free the girl.
She was then taken to a hospital but died there as a result of the accident,
NBC Miami
reported.
The girl's father had previously managed to free his son, who was also buried, before his daughter could also be dug up.
The nine-year-old boy survived.
Not the first fatal beach accident?
TV station reports on further cases in the USA
It remained unclear why the children were even able to dig a hole of this size on the public beach promenade.
NBC Miami
reported on other accidents, some of which were fatal, that occurred there in the past in connection with sand holes.
Here too, they suddenly collapsed and buried people.
Death drama on a beach in the USA: rescue attempts come too late – seven-year-old dead
The Broward Sheriff's Office has now officially confirmed the 7-year-old's death.
The siblings were both taken to hospital in critical condition after the accident after they were rescued from the sand.
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Private video footage released by US news broadcasts captured the dramatic rescue attempts.
The images showed adults frantically digging in a sand hollow with buckets and shovels.
A police officer takes photos of the crime scene on the beach in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea: two siblings were buried while digging in the sand.
One of the children did not survive the accident.
© Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel/AP/dpa
Mother of dead girl finds emotional words – “We love you beyond measure”
The girl's family is being helped with an online fundraising campaign
set up on the website
gofundme.com .
“A tragic accident happened yesterday while we were on vacation.
And he took away the most beautiful 7.5 years from us," the mother of the fatally injured girl was quoted as saying: "We experienced the purest human being and she changed us forever.
We love you beyond measure.
Our sweet Sloan.”
The fundraising goal of 150,000 US dollars (around 138,475 euros) has almost been reached.
Just one day after the call for donations was published, over 104,000 US dollars (almost 96,000 euros) had already been raised
(as of February 23rd)
.
Meanwhile, another mother's vacation ended dramatically - her daughter (2) died.