Three Boys Killed When Trench Collapses
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Three Rio Linda boys died Sunday evening when a construction trench collapsed and covered them in dirt and asphalt.
The boys--8, 9 and 12--were playing in the 8-foot-deep ditch with a fourth child when one of them tugged a tree root, unleashing a wall of dirt, Capt. Patrick Ellis of the Sacramento County Fire Department said.
The only survivor was taken to Kaiser Permanente Medical Facilities with minor injuries. Ellis said the construction site is a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. project.
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