Siblings got entangled in a tent which fell into pool.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: Two children have tragically died after their tent fell into a pool at a Houston, Texas home, Thursday night.
According to CBS affiliate KWTX, the two victims were identified Friday as 6-year-old Alvaro Ramiro, and his 9-year-old brother, Gonzalo Ramiro.
The boys and their sister were in the care of a nanny while their mother ran errands and were evidently playing with a camping tent in the pool when they started having trouble in the water, officials stated, according to KPRC Houston.
An investigator with Harris County Constable Precinct 5 told KPRC that one of their deputy constables who works security in the Lakes of Parkway subdivision was doing paperwork in his patrol car when a 12-year-old girl ran up to him, saying her brothers were drowning.
He immediately sprinted to the household and pulled one boy out of the pool while the nanny grabbed the other and he performed CPR on both boys until the paramedics arrived to take then to the Texas Children’s Hospital West campus.
Unfortunately, efforts to save the boys were to no avail, as they were both pronounced dead at the hospital.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, most drownings among children occur in home swimming pools. Among children aged 1 to 14, fatal drowning remains the second-leading cause of unintentional injury-related death behind motor vehicle crashes.
Per the CDC, about ten people die from unintentional drowning daily. Of these, two are children aged 14 or younger.
Drowning ranks fifth among the leading causes of unintentional injury death in the United States.