South Florida Sun-Sentinel.The eight-year-old boy was also rushed to the hospital.
He is in stable condition.Images taken from news helicopters showed the area around the sand hole cordoned off with cones and yellow police tape.The Broward County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the circumstances that led to the tragedy.This isn’t the first time collapsing sand has claimed lives.In May 2022, an 18-year-old died and his 17-year-old sister was injured after the hole the pair were digging at a New Jersey beach collapsed in on them.Three months later, a 35-year-old man from Florida died when a sand dune collapsed on him while he was recording a video of the sunrise.
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