Three young brothers died after falling through ice on a private pond in Bonham, Texas, while two teenage girls were killed in a sledding accident in Frisco, as part of a winter storm that has claimed at least 23 lives across a dozen states.
Three brothers—Howard, 6, Kaleb, 8, and EJ, 9—died Monday after falling through ice on a private pond near Bonham, Texas, despite their mother’s frantic rescue efforts. “I tried to pick one up, put him on the ice, it would just break, keep falling in,” Cheyenne Hangaman told CBS News. “It was three of them, only one me. That’s why I couldn’t save them.” The boys had gone outside to sled when the youngest wandered onto the frozen pond.
The deaths were among five child fatalities in northern Texas linked to a winter storm that has killed at least 23 people across 12 states. In Frisco, about 50 miles southwest of Bonham, Elizabeth Angle and Grace Brito, both 16, died after their sled, being pulled by a Jeep, struck a curb and tree on Sunday. Cook Children’s Medical Center treated over 52 children for sledding injuries over the weekend as authorities warned of dangers in a region unaccustomed to severe winter weather.