YUMA, Ariz. — Police said 18-month-old twin boys drowned in a southwestern Arizona canal after their stroller rolled into the flowing water when their mother stopped to bat away a bee.
Yuma police said 26-year-old Alexis Keslar jumped into the steep-sloped canal Friday but couldn’t rescue the boys because the deep water was moving too fast.
The Yuma County medical examiner determined that the deaths were accidental drownings, police said Tuesday.
Keslar managed to get out of the canal, police Lieutenant Don Willits said, but she lost her cellphone in the water. A Yuma city public works employee who was nearby heard her yell for help and called 911, Willits said.
It took authorities more than an hour to find and retrieve the boys.
The canal’s water level was lowered to help the rescue effort, but Silas and Eli Keslar were pronounced dead at a hospital.