A 7-year-old girl died on Tuesday after the hole she was digging with her brother at a Florida beach collapsed, burying the pair in sand, the authorities said — one of a few instances in which such an episode turns deadly each year in the United States. She says she could not see any part of the girl’s body. “Mom’s yelling, ‘My daughter’s in there,’” she says. Footage appeared to show other beachgoers crowded around the sand hole, trying to dig out the girl before rescuers arrived. Other 911 callers sounded distressed as they described the frantic scene.

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Persons: Sloan Mattingly, Maddox, Mom’s, ‘, ’ ” Organizations: Broward County Sheriff’s, Sheriff’s Locations: Florida, United States, Indiana, Lauderdale, Miami, Broward County