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Sloan Mattingly and brother Maddox got trapped in a sand hole while playing at the beach

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The collapse of a sand hole that killed a 7-year-old Indiana girl who was digging with her brother on a Florida beach is an

A 7-year-old girl died when the sand hole dug at a Broward beach collapsed on her

A witness describes in a 911 call the deadly accident that unfolded at a South Florida beach when a sand hole collapsed on 7-year-old Sloan Mattingly.

Sloan Mattingly died Tuesday afternoon at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea’s beach when a 4-to-5-foot-deep (1-to-1.5-meter) hole collapsed on her and her 7-year-old brother, Maddox. The boy was buried up to his chest, but the girl was fully covered.

The panic-stricken witness can be heard in the audio telling the dispatcher that everybodys screaming, and after several minutes of detailing the horror unfolding she concluded: Oh, this mother, so awful.

The collapse of a sand hole that killed a 5-year-old Indiana girl on a Florida beach is an underrecognized danger that kills and injures several children a year around the

News reports and a study show that three to five children die annually in sand hole collapses.

The girl was buried under the sand when the walls collapsed in the pit she was digging with another child. That boy was hospitalized for his injuries.

The hole was five or six feet deep when the collapse happened, authorities said.