LAKE HUGHES, Calif.—Two young siblings drowned in a shallow pond in the Lake Hughes area, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Tuesday.
Authorities went to the 43100 block of Lake Hughes Road at about 6:55 p.m. Monday. The children—a 4-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl—were airlifted to a hospital, where they died, the sheriff’s department reported. Their names have not been released.
“Detectives later learned the children were last seen playing in the yard of the location,” a sheriff’s department statement said. “When the mother went to call them into the residence, she noticed the children were missing and began searching for them. The mother located them inside a shallow pond which was within a close proximity to the residence.”
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