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The seven-year-old girl had been digging a deep hole with her brother Maddox, nine, when it collapsed. Beachgoers at the scene rushed to pull out the pair, but Sloan died after being taken to hospital.
The parents of Sloan Mattingly, seven, who died after a hole she was digging in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea collapsed have paid tribute.
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A man told CBS News Miami that he saw someone dig the 'massive' sand hole that two children got trapped in on a South Florida beach earlier this week. Following the incident, Sloan Mattingly, 7, died, and brother Maddox Mattingly, 9, was hospitalized.
A man who witnessed the moments a sand hole swallowed and killed a young girl on a Lauderdale-by-the-Sea beach is speaking out about what he saw.