Girl ‘killed after hole she dug in sand collapsed on Florida beach’

A bucket rests next to caution tape on a beach in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

A young girl was buried in sand and died when a deep hole she was digging with a little boy collapsed on them both at a south Florida beach, authorities said.

Emergency crews responding at around 3pm to Lauderdale-by-the-Sea found the boy, who is about eight years old, buried up his chest in sand, said Sandra King, a spokesperson for Pompano Beach Fire Rescue.