AURORA, Ind. (AP) - Authorities say twin 2-year-old girls who wandered away from their southeastern Indiana home drowned in rainwater atop a neighbor’s swimming pool cover.
They identified the girls Wednesday as Jocelyn and Shaylyn Spurlock of Aurora, a town about 20 miles west of Cincinnati.
The Dearborn County Sheriff’s Department says the girls were reported missing Tuesday evening and found more than an hour later by a neighbor and firefighter. The girls were rushed to a hospital in Lawrenceburg, where they were pronounced dead.
Neighbors tells WLWT-TV and WKRC-TV the girls were flower girls in their parents’ wedding Saturday.
WLWT reports the girls’ mother left the girls with a grandmother while she ran an errand and the grandmother fell asleep.
Sgt. Jon Evans said a woman with Alzheimer’s disease drowned nearby last week.
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