Three young brothers drown after falling through ice on pond in Texas

A pond where neighbors say three young boys died after falling into the water on Tuesday, in Bonham, Texas. Photograph: Julio Cortez/AP

Three brothers ages six, eight and nine have died after falling through ice on a private pond near Bonham, Texas.

The boys’ mother said she ran into the freezing lake and frantically tried to pull her sons from the water, but the ice kept breaking beneath them. The accident happened on Monday.

“They were just screaming, telling me to help them,” Cheyenne Hangaman told the Associated Press. “And I watched all of them struggle, struggle to stay above the water. I watched all of them fight.”