FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A young girl was buried in sand and died Tuesday when a deep hole she was digging with a little boy collapsed on them both at a south Florida beach, authorities said.

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Encinitas lifeguards showed how easily a child can be buried by sand while digging a hole at the beach in a demonstration at Moonlight Beach Tuesday morning. Lifeguards and firefighters dug three ...

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 underrecognized danger that kills and injures several children a year around ...

A 7-year-old girl died Tuesday after a deep hole she was digging with her brother collapsed on them both at a South Florida beach. Sloan Mattingly was on vacation at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea's beach with ...

Sea Girt passed a new ordinance, banning the digging of large holes in the sand at the beach. The town passed the new ordinance in April to adopt stricter rules around sand hole digging. The “fun” ...