Two young girls, daughters of Telugu couple David and Sudha Gali, drowned in a pond near their apartment in Holtsville of Long Island in New York on Saturday.
According to information available from social media and GoFundMe campaigns being run by friends of the couple, the children, Ruth Evangeline Gali (4 years and 11 months) and Selah Grace Gali (2 years and 11 months) were said to have wandered out of their home to play. The mother, who found them missing, searched and later called in the 911 emergency services, after which the children were found in a pond near the apartment complex.
Though they were immediately taken to Stony Brook University Hospital, where doctors tried to resuscitate them, the children died.