Girl, 9, dies after sand hole collapses on her

A nine-year-old girl died when a sand hole collapsed on her at a beach in the coastal town of Lincoln City, Oregon in America.

Isabel Grace Franks was visiting the beach with her family and had been digging the hole with her siblings and friends.

According to AP, the sand caved when she sat in the hole to see how deep it was.

Witness Tracey Dudley said: "At first we thought, you know, it was just kids, but it was like screaming and screaming and screaming."

A group of people tried to dig Isabel out but police said that she was unconscious and not breathing when she was pulled free.

Ambulance and medical teams performed COR but the little girl was taken to hospital and later pronounced dead.

Debbie Kohl, who watched the tragic scene from her motel room, told NBC News: "Everybody was just digging and digging frantically and then a first responder jumped down into the hole and it took between 5 and 10 minutes to get her up."

Lincoln Police Sergeant Brian Eskridge told NBC News: "This is a horrific accident. Anytime you've got a sand structure, if they dig, there's the potential someone can get trapped in it. It's really dangerous, and people aren't aware of it."

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