PICTURED: Seven-year-old girl who died in Fort Lauderdale sand hole
Sloan Mattingly died after being buried for about 15 minutes.
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Sloan Mattingly died after being buried for about 15 minutes.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A family from Indiana was enjoying a beach day at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Tuesday afternoon when the large hole the two young children were digging in the sand collapsed, burying them alive, officials say. The children were identified by the Broward Sheriff’s Office Wednesday as 5-year-old Sloan Mattingly and her 9-year-old brother, Maddox. Sloan had no pulse when ...
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The collapse of a sand hole that killed a 5-year-old Indiana girl who was digging with her brother on a Florida beach is an underrecognized danger that kills and injures several children a year around the country.
Officials have identified the two siblings involved in a sand digging at a south Florida beach.