Woman, Three Children Drown in Mich. Lake
618241
As a light rain and darkness fell, a woman driving her young daughter and two classmates to a dance concert apparently missed a sign at the edge of Long Lake warning that the road was about to end.
169580
Rescuers used a front-end loader to pluck a woman and three children from the roof of a sport utility vehicle that strayed into floodwaters on a rural road. But they were unable to reach her other two young children trapped inside the SUV.
233633
By Sian Powell  URGENT calls have been made to teach children water safety skills after a young boy drowned in a Nuneaton lake.
582430
A woman and her young son fell into a rushing, rain-swollen creek Monday, a day after an 11-year-old boy fell into the same creek and drowned, authorities said.
110150
A 2-year-old girl drowned after slipping from her mother's grip and falling into the raging floodwaters. A passer-by pulled a 5-year-old stuck in neck-high mud to safety. A man was swept two miles down a swollen, icy river before being rescued.
105204
Police name a family of five who are feared to have drowned during violent storms in the Western Isles.
551008
Three British tourists and a German who drowned off the coast of Portugal's Algarve tourist region on Monday were trying to rescue their children from the sea, a police official said on Tuesday.
359353
ZAKHU, Iraq  - Up to 40 people were swept away and  drowned as they tried to cross a swollen river in the far north  of Iraq Tuesday, families of the victims said.
685381
Two young children and two adults are killed in a road crash which leaves five other people injured
107149
By MARCUS KABEL  SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Divers searched a lake for another body Wednesday after fishermen heard loud splashes before dawn and rescued a 5-year-old girl from the water.
270756
Three people die after heavy rains cause severe flooding across England and Wales.
226740
TORONTO (CP) - A Toronto woman stabbed her husband and three-year-old daughter to death before fatally cutting her own throat this week in one of the most terrible tragedies ever encountered by the city's emergency workers, police said Friday.
478396
Three British tourists and a German who  drowned off the coast of Portugal's Algarve tourist region on  Monday were trying to rescue their children from the sea, a  police official said on Tuesday.
600636
Â· Mother and two teenagers bludgeoned to death Â· Sought man was woman's boyfriend, neighbours say
38816
Some relatives of a woman convicted of allowing her three children to drown inside a car in a lake said they would seek mercy for her Thursday at her sentencing for child endangerment.
725642
Seven people, including a pregnant woman and two small children, drowned when a man failed in an attempt to drive his four-wheel-drive vehicle across a flooded creek in southeastern Brazil, officials said Monday.
414724
Three New Jersey women drowned early yesterday when their SUV plummeted into the Passaic River - and instead of phoning 911 for help, one called a friend, police said.