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Toddlers drown in Florida
A four-year-old girl and her two-year-old brother drowned in their Florida home swimming pool on Sunday morning, Johannesburg Emergency Services said.
"Emergency workers received a call about the drowning at 11am but it was already too late when they got there," said spokeswoman Nana Radebe.
They tried to resuscitate the siblings for about an hour, after which they declared them dead.
The boy first fall into the pool and his sister went in to try and help him, but both toddlers ended up drowning.
Radebe said the pool was not covered as required by the Johannesburg City's by-laws.
"We urge people to install fencing around their private pools to prevent such incidents," she said.
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