Girl, 4, slips and drowns as mom grabs other falling child
In a fleeting yet terrifying moment, a Gqeberha mother caught her little girl before she fell into a river, but in a cruel twist of fate her other child slipped off her back and was swept away by the raging current.
The Jacksonville woman had been crossing the river with her two toddlers on Tuesday — carrying one on her chest and the other on her back — when the three-year-old girl in front started to slip. ..
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