3rd Girl Dies Days After Youth Camp Sailboat Crash In South FL: Reports

MIAMI BEACH, FL — Family and officials confirmed the death of a third girl days after a deadly collision between a barge and a youth camp sailboat in Biscayne Bay, according to multiple reports.

Arielle Mazi Buchman, 10, was hospitalized after the crash and died days later while surrounded by her immediate family, U.S. Coast Guard officials said, WSVN reported.

There were six people aboard the sailboat when the crash happened near Hibiscus Island in Miami Beach on July 28 around 11 a.m., the Coast Guard said in a news release.

Two girls, 7-year-old Mila Yankelevich of Argentina and 13-year-old Erin Ko, a Chilean national who recently moved to the United States, were pronounced dead at Jackson Memorial Hospital just after the crash, reports said.

The Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office said on Thursday that Yankelevich and Ko died of accidental drowning, the Miami Herald reported.

A 12-year-old girl and a 19-year-old woman, a counselor at the camp, were rescued from the water and treated for injuries at the scene.

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Two other girls, an 8-year-old and Buchman, were also brought to the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson right after the crash, both in critical condition.

The 8-year-old was released from the hospital on Thursday, CBS News said.

It’s uncertain when the 10-year-old died as some South American media outlets reported her death on Thursday, while her family confirmed her death over the weekend, according to reports.

The girl’s cousin, former Bal Harbour Mayor Gabriel Groisman, posted about her death to X on Sunday:

His comment likely refers to Tisha B'Av, a Jewish day of commemoration that marks the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, CBS said. This year, it was observed on Sunday.

The cause of the boat crash is under investigation, but toxicology reports for all involved in it came back negative, and alcohol and drugs were ruled out as a factor, reports said.

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