2 children die after falling into icy southern Indiana pond

WINSLOW, Ind. — A boy and girl, both 12, died after falling through ice into a pond in southern Indiana, despite rescue efforts by the boy’s mother, authorities said Friday.

State conservation Officer Joe Haywood said the woman was cooking dinner Thursday evening when her son and a girl she was watching asked if they could go outside to play. When dinner was ready about 10 minutes later, he said the woman went outside to call the children and saw her son flailing in the icy water of the pond behind her home near the town of Winslow.

Haywood said the woman entered the pond but was unable to pull her son to shore. She did not see the girl in the water.

A public safety diver retrieved both children, but they had been underwater for at least half an hour and could not be revived.