Florida Mom Dies While Trying to Save Children From Rip Current

Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
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A Florida mother died on Saturday, Oct. 13, trying to save her children from a rip current.

Samar Aboukhdair, 36, was watching eight children—six of her own and two others—when a rip current caught some of them, prompting the mother to rush into the ocean at St. Pete Beach in Pinellas County.

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