[Ammi]

Two-year-old twin boys have drowned after reportedly falling into a fish pond in Fife.

Emergency services were called to the scene in Dalgety Bay at around 8.20am on Saturday after the boys were found.

They were taken to Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy where they were pronounced dead, Police Scotland said.

Officers are supporting the family and working to establish the full circumstances of the incident.

A force spokesman said: "We received a call around 8.20am on Saturday following a report of concern for two children at an address in Dalgety Bay, Fife.

"Two male twins, aged two-years-old, had reportedly drowned in a fish pond and officers attended with the Scottish Ambulance Service.

"The children were taken to the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy where they sadly died.

"Officers are supporting the family at this time. Inquiries to establish the full circumstances are ongoing."


https://uk.news.yahoo.com/two-old-tw...694.html?nhp=1

[waterhog]

Originally Posted by Ammi

Two-year-old twin boys have drowned after reportedly falling into a fish pond in Fife.

Emergency services were called to the scene in Dalgety Bay at around 8.20am on Saturday after the boys were found.

They were taken to Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy where they were pronounced dead, Police Scotland said.

Officers are supporting the family and working to establish the full circumstances of the incident.

A force spokesman said: "We received a call around 8.20am on Saturday following a report of concern for two children at an address in Dalgety Bay, Fife.

"Two male twins, aged two-years-old, had reportedly drowned in a fish pond and officers attended with the Scottish Ambulance Service.

"The children were taken to the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy where they sadly died.

"Officers are supporting the family at this time. Inquiries to establish the full circumstances are ongoing."


https://uk.news.yahoo.com/two-old-tw...694.html?nhp=1

very sad

[Vicky.]

What kind of idiot leaves young kids unattended around a pond. You can't even take your eyes off them for a second in that situation

[Kizzy]

Maybe they were having dinner at a restaurant nearby?

[Nicky91]

very sad, but who leaves their 2 yr old boys unattended?

[Crimson Dynamo]

I am not quite sure why they have a deep unprotected pond in their garden with 2 year old twins?

[Cherie]

So shocking that people can be so oblivious to the dangers to young children, two little lives taken in circumstances that could have been avoided, I don't know how anyone could get over it

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Cherie

So shocking that people can be so oblivious to the dangers to young children, two little lives taken in circumstances that could have been avoided, I don't know how anyone could get over it

thing is its not too long ago that a wee 2 year old girl died in a pond in a house in Stirling so you would think folk would learn?

[kirklancaster]

This is a real tragedy. I could not recover from the loss of two of my children. It is so sad but I agree, it was also totally preventable.

[Ammi]

...Rhys and Shaun...

Spoiler:

...heart-wrenching...

[jennyjuniper]

Poor little loves.

[arista]

If you have a Pond and kids
make sure its protected
and Safe for Children


This keeps going on?

[arista]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

I am not quite sure why they have a deep unprotected pond in their garden with 2 year old twins?

They must have not thought of the Danger
sadly LT

[who is it]

Articles like these are really depressing and morbid. They should be BANNED from newspapers and news websites.

[Kizzy]

In glorious technicolor just in case the text wasn't upsetting enough.

[Ammi]

...wow...so upsetting that the only comment made previously was a spiteful snipe about having dinner at a nearby restaurant...

..I'll leave the picture of Shaun and Rhys in the thread as I think it's appropriate to be there but I'll spoiler it in case some genuinely do find it upsetting to look at but I ask that if threads have to be used for spiteful comments, that out of compassion of heart, it not be this thread please...

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...Rhys and Shaun...

Spoiler:

...heart-wrenching...

Such beautiful babies so sad

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...wow...so upsetting that the only comment made previously was a spiteful snipe about having dinner at a nearby restaurant...

..I'll leave the picture of Shaun and Rhys in the thread as I think it's appropriate to be there but I'll spoiler it in case some genuinely do find it upsetting to look at but I ask that if threads have to be used for spiteful comments, that out of compassion of heart, it not be this thread please...

A spiteful snipe...to whom is the snipe, and why do you suggest my comment is full of spite?
I did/do find it genuinely upsetting what are we meant to say, just tut and snipe at the lack of supervision of these toddlers?
What compassion of heart is there in the macabre spectacle that is the image of two now deceased children.

[Niamh.]

Macabre spectacle? Oh give over Kizzy, it's not a photo of their dead bodies, it's a nice photo of them, what exactly is wrong with it?

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Macabre spectacle? Oh give over Kizzy, it's not a photo of their dead bodies, it's a nice photo of them, what exactly is wrong with it?

I find it creepy, I just found it a shock seeing it maybe I'm too sensitive

[Toy Soldier]

I do find these front pages a bit unsettling. Using such unspeakable tragedy to sell papers (and come on... that's what they are doing), it just feels so wrong. Disrespectful, I suppose?

Though I can appreciate that, in this case, there is at least a purpose to their story being widely published as if it makes even one parent be more vigilant with water hazards around their kids then something has come from it. It only takes a little water and a very little time... it's terrifying. last year my (then) 5-year-old on holiday decided that, as she had been going without armbands in the shallow end, she was now an expert swimmer and jumped off the side into 12-foot-deep water. She went straight under and panicked. Luckily we were right there to grab her but it's terrifying, the blink of an eye.

[who is it]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I do find these front pages a bit unsettling. Using such unspeakable tragedy to sell papers (and come on... that's what they are doing), it just feels so wrong. Disrespectful, I suppose?

You're right, and also for sympathy from the public. I do think these child death articles are extremely morbid and dark. They don't need to have their dead kids faces on the front page just to get the nation to sympathise with them, I am sad for their loss but they should just let them grieve in private without any newspapers invading their privacy and printing their kids faces on every newspaper in Britain.

There are billions of children in the world dying everyday and only a select few make it into the newspapers so yes, these types of articles are quite depressing and distasteful and need to be stopped.

[Ammi]

..it's still uncertain how this 'freak accident' happened but it wasn't a regular garden pond...it was a raised fish tank, which had been installed by the owners of the property...(the family was just renting/hadn't been in the house long..)...for the purpose of breeding Koi Carp..possibly, not something that it had been thought that the boys could get to...

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...wow...so upsetting that the only comment made previously was a spiteful snipe about having dinner at a nearby restaurant...

..I'll leave the picture of Shaun and Rhys in the thread as I think it's appropriate to be there but I'll spoiler it in case some genuinely do find it upsetting to look at but I ask that if threads have to be used for spiteful comments, that out of compassion of heart, it not be this thread please...

Thank you for the beautiful photos of these tragic little kids Ammi. It is far more fitting 'memorial' to have in our minds than the naked, stark, and depressing facts of their untimely deaths alone.

It is such a tragedy.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..it's still uncertain how this 'freak accident' happened but it wasn't a regular garden pond...it was a raised fish tank, which had been installed by the owners of the property...(the family was just renting/hadn't been in the house long..)...for the purpose of breeding Koi Carp..possibly, not something that it had been thought that the boys could get to...

What troubles me, is how both of them drowned. My attempts to rationalise this are uncomfortable and upsetting - because of the mental images - but I cannot help but wonder. Did one little tot fall in and the other try to help him? Did both of them get into the pond wanting to 'paddle' or suchlike?

It's disturbing.