ThatвЂ™s one of the biggest dangers of open water, is you canвЂ™t see the bottom.вЂќ

вЂњTheyвЂ™re great, they look beautiful but they can be dangerous. Retention ponds вЂњare what we call an attractive nuisance,вЂќ the conservation officer said. Natural Resources is leading the investigation because the incident involves a body of water. Angela Goldman of the Indiana Department of Natural ResourcesвЂ™ law enforcement division says debris and sudden drop-offs make retention ponds very dangerous places to swim. Wednesday.ДЄmbulance crews took both girl to Riley ChildrenвЂ™s Hospital, where one of them died. Firefighters pulled both girls from the water a little after 8 p.m. Investigators say they believe two preteen girls in the group took a wrong step and went underwater. вЂњI thought they had left, and then I saw that there were still shoes there, and I thought they were just being quiet on the other side of the tree,вЂќ she said. Delp says she heard them playing in the water for a while and then it got quiet. The group walked around a willow tree on the edge of her property, which kept her from seeing them clearly. She says the presence of a taller girl in the group initially made her think it was a group of children with their mother. Delp says she had seen the children involved once before in the neighborhood but had never seen them or anyone else in the retention pond until this week.Дelp told News 8 she was reading on her patio Wednesday evening when saw the children walking along the bank behind her home. (WISH) - A witness to the drowning of a girl rescued Wednesday night from a retention pond said Thursday she will never look at the pond behind her home in the same way again.ДЇor the past 25 years, Sally Delp and her family have lived in a home with a backyard that overlooks a retention pond. The coronerвЂ™s office did not additional information on the cause and manner of the girlsвЂ™ deaths. LATEST: The two girls who died after being pulled from a Greenwood retention pond have been identified by the Marion County CoronerвЂ™s Office as 11-year-old Paw Lin and 13-year-old Rosia Mang.

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