3 Children Die After Their Tunnels Cave In

Three California children are dead after two separate incidents in which tunnels they were digging collapsed around them. A 14-year-old Yuba City boy died Tuesday morning at a Sacramento hospital, two days after the collapse of a tunnel he and several friends had been digging in a vacant lot near his home. And the bodies of a 9-year-old boy and his 7-year-old sister were discovered Monday evening amid the remains of a tunnel they were digging near their Eureka-area home. Bill Miles, operations chief for the Yuba City Fire Department, said the 14-year-old had been digging in the tunnel with a friend who went home for a few minutes. When the friend returned he found the boy buried beneath the soil. The bodies of Sequoia Snowtree and his sister, Sierra Roe O’Loughlin, were found in the Eureka area by their mother, Lara O’Loughlin, after a search by sheriff’s deputies and neighbors.