An 18-year-old died and his sister was rescued after a hole they were digging in the sand at a New Jersey beach collapsed in on them, police said.
An 18-year-old died and his sister was rescued after a hole they were digging in the sand at a New Jersey beach collapsed in on them Tuesday, police said.
Levy Caverley, of Maine, died after the accident in Toms River on the Jersey Shore shortly after 4 p.m., police said in a statement. His sister, 17, was rescued and treated at the scene. The accident happened on the ocean-facing beach on a large barrier island that stretches down the New Jersey coast, Toms River police said.Rescue crews try to free two teenagers from a 10-foot hole in the beach that collapsed on them Tuesday in Toms River, N.J.The siblings and their family were visiting and had spent the day at the beach, police said. Aerial video showed the efforts of rescue crews using boards and buckets to try to reach him.
after a tunnel he’d been digging in a sand dune at a state park collapsed on him, authorities there have said.
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