Teen twin brothers die after one fell in Miami lake and the other jumped in to save him

Teenage twin brothers both died from drowning after one brother fell in a Miami lake and the other jumped in after him, officials said. 

The boys were playing near the lake at Arthur Woodard Park in Miami on Friday around 3pm when one of the twins was pushed in the water by another teen, according to a witness.

The other twin jumped into the lake to try and save his brother, but the boys did not know how to swim and started to drown, police said.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded to the scene and three divers went into the water in search of the missing boys. Once they were located, paramedics performed CPR and transported them both to a nearby hospital.

One of the twins died at the hospital and the other twin was listed in critical condition, but later died, officials said.

Teenage twin brothers tragically die after one brother fell in Miami lake and the other twin jumped in trying to save him and both drowned, officials said

Police and witnesses at the scene where the Friday afternoon tragedy took place at Arthur Woodward Park located at Northwest 99th Street in Northwest Miami

Horrified witness Miguel 'El Skipper' Quintero who lives on the other side of the lake watched divers search the lake for about an hour. 

He told NBC6 Miami that the lake is about 15 feet deep. 

'You never want to see something like this ... that it is about as hard as it gets,' Quintero said.

At the crime scene, a Miami-Dade official told the news outlet 'my heart goes out to their family. 

'This is a very, very sad event when you have a group of children playing at a park on a beautiful day for this to happen,' he said.

The Miami-Dade Police Department did not respond to a request for comment.

The boys' identities and ages have not been released. Police are in the process of notifying family members, officials said.

Florida ranked 6th in the US for unintentional drowning deaths per capita among children ages 0 to 17 years of age in 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

This year, there have already been 22 drownings in the state of Florida, according to the Florida Department of Children and Families, the news outlet reported.

In 2022, the department reported a total of 93 drownings.  

An unidentified woman is comforting a young girl at the park and near the site where the drownings took place

Miami-Dade officials and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue rushed to the park when they were alerted that two people were in the water