UPDATE:
The body of the second child was recovered today.
2 boys, ages 9 & 10 died
This is soooooooooooooo sad
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Two sets of parents are pleased .... Two sets are broken ....
Today tragedy struck our area ....
The big city (st Paul) school district had a field trip to a park at an adjoining city ... We've been there but only on the trails ... The point of the trip was to look for fossils ... The place has quite a bit so it's a prime location ...
A group of 4th graders ... Aged about 10 years old ... Maybe 9 years old ... We're having fun looking on this semi-rainy day - just light sprinkles, nothing huge like we've had over the weekend ...
They say the earth just gave way .... They say there was a gravel slide ... They say there was no way to know it was going to happen ....
4 kids were caught in it ...
Two were rescued ... One has already gone home from a hospital ...
One was "recovered" ... That is, they were too late or the child was killed on impact ....
One is still missing ... They were going to stop looking around 11pm tonight because the area was getting dangerous for rescuers - they had been digging all afternoon and even had fire hoses down there to try to wash away the sand/gravel to find the children ...
Facebook posts from the local news say they were going to keep looking ... I'm betting they've closed down for the night now ...
They've dubbed it a "recovery" now ... So they think this child is gone as well ...
This is every parents nightmare!
Hug your kids tonight ... And every time you are near them ... Every time you get in a bickering with them end it with "I really do love you" ... Because you never know ...
So sad ...
I will follow up as news comes in
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