Brother, 11, and sister, 13, drown at beach after begging for ‘one last swim’

Siblings Ameiya and Ricardo Junior have drowned after insisting on going for “one last swim” at a Spanish beach. Ameiya and Ricardo, known as Maya and Jubs, from Birmingham, UK, and their family had been on their first big holiday abroad at the beach resort of Salou at the start of the summer holidays. But on Tuesday, July 29, the brother and sister were swept away to their de@th in front of their family as they were dragged 100m away from each other in powerful rip-tides. Their father, Ricardo Senior, had to be rescued in high winds as he desperately tried to save his children at Llarga Beach. Now the family has spoken about the nightmare that turned their lives upside down. Their mum, Shanice, and dad, both 31, were staying at the hotel with their six children near the beach. The doomed swim trip came towards the end of their vacation. Shanice had taken one of their kids to the toilet along with three other children while dad Ricardo Senior stayed at the beach with Ameiya and Ricardo for them to have one last swim. But the trio were nowhere to be seen when she returned, Shanices sister Macalia Del Brocco, 46, said. She told Daily Mail: “She came back out, she couldnt see any of them. At that point, she panicked. And it was at that point the police arrived and things started happening.” Emergency services were called shortly after 8.45pm on July 29, Catalonias Civil Protection agency said.Despite the best efforts of emergency services at the scene, the siblings did at the scene. Their dad had swallowed “a lot of sea water and was exhausted,” but he was revived. Shanice’s sister Macalia said: “Ricardo is feeling, obviously, very pained because he was in the water with them, so thats going to be hitting him hard. “Thats not going to disappear from his mind. Its going to be a lot of trauma mentally for him to deal with.  “But families pull together, and there will be support all the way around.” Ameiya and Ricardo Juniors younger brother Casius, 6, told their aunt after his siblings deaths that “did you know Maya and Jubs are in heaven now? Juby went to heaven in a helicopter.” The brother and sister have been described by loved ones as “beautiful” and “bright”. One of the officers who jumped into the water explained that the current was so strong that the boy and the girl were ripped 100m away from each other even though they entered the sea in the same place. Giving his name as Younes A, he told DiariTots21: “A hotel worker was trying to get one of the three out of the sea when we arrived. “We took off our belts with our clothes and threw ourselves into the sea. “We were told when we helped get that person out that another two people were in the sea who could be minors. “We tried to locate them, saw bits of clothes and seconds later were able to locate and get a young girl out of the water and began resuscitation and another police force was the one responsible for getting the other child out of the sea. “When the emergency services arrived they took over the efforts to save them until they said they couldnt do anything more. “We dont know the circumstances leading up to them getting into difficulties. “I leapt into the water with two other colleagues to get the father to safety first before going back to rescue one of the children.” He added: “There were waves and wind. It was dangerous. There was a lot of swell.”  The post Brother, 11, and sister, 13, drown at beach after begging for ‘one last swim’ appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.