The two girls were found at the bottom of the pool just after 11 a.m., local time on Friday, June 12, and were airlifted to a local hospital, police said
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Police tape is seen around a pool where two twin girls were found unresponsive.Twin 5-year-old sisters died in an apparent drowning after they were found unresponsive in a Florida vacation home’s swimming pool on Friday, June 12.
First responders were called to a house in Kissimmee, Fla. — located south of Orlando — just after 11 a.m. local time, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
The sheriff’s office said that two twin girls, both age 5, had been found unresponsive at the bottom of the house’s pool. They were airlifted to Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, and were pronounced ᴅᴇᴀᴅ several hours later.
The two girls and their family were visiting the area from Georgia, according to the sheriff’s office. The four adults staying at the rental property had left to buy food, and a 15-year-old was at home at the time of the incident, investigators told News 6.
Homicide detectives are currently investigating the incident, which is standard procedure in child death cases, and the local medical examiner is set to confirm the girls’ cause of death, a sheriff’s office spokesperson confirmed to PEOPLE.
“Unfortunately, this is a tragedy,” OCSO Public Information Officer Kim Montes told News 6. “We want to remind people: pool safety is No. 1 this time of year, and a lot of the drownings and near drowning in the county occur in the rental properties.”
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The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said that detectives are currently investigating the incident.
Fifty children in Florida have died from drownings thus far in 2026, with victims ranging in ages from 4 to 8, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Around 4,000 children die from unintentional drowning in the U.S. each year, and it is the leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 4, per the Centers for Disease Control.
The two girls were found at the bottom of the pool just after 11 a.m., local time on Friday, June 12, and were airlifted to a local…