CITRUS COUNTY, Fla. – Two Florida boys died last weekend when a hole they were digging in sand collapsed and trapped them, according to ABC News.
The teens were buried for more than an hour at Sportsman Park in Inverness.
The boys were identified as 14-year-olds George Watts and Derrick Hubbard, ABC News reported.
A GoFundMe set up for the boys’ families described the “unimaginable nightmare” as a fear that became reality.
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“While playing together, the boys dug a tunnel in sugar sand and were inside when it suddenly collapsed. In an instant, our world was shattered. What should have been another day of childhood adventure turned into a heartbreaking loss that no parent should ever have to endure. Our precious boys were taken from us far too soon,” the GoFundMe reads.
The two boys grew up “side by side, bonded like siblings,” the GoFundMe said.
ABC News said the two boys were students at Inverness Middle School. School officials released a statement on the incident earlier this week: