Columbus: two children drown while swimming

Two young Columbus brothers drowned in the Chattahoochee River on Saturday.

Nine-year-old Alijah, and eight-year-old Arturio, Rozier died when they drowned during a swim on Saturday afternoon at an isolated area of the Oxbow Meadows Environmental Learning Center south of town, according to a report in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer newspaper.

A nearby boater saw the two in the water, and alerted Columbus Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services who were called to the scene. Divers pulled the two from the water, but attempts to resuscitate the children failed, and they were later declared dead at the city's Medical Center.