Eight other people suffered non-life-threatening injuries after the incident, prompting emergency services to be dispatched at 4:32 p.m. ET Wednesday.
A man in his 40s, who was on the water at the time, has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, according to Dorset Police.
An investigation into this incident has been launched.
It is not clear how the boy and girl who died in the hospital were seriously injured.
... Dorset Police work in conjunction with the Maritime Investigation Department and the Maritime and Coast Guard.
The Coast Guard conducted a search to make sure no one else was missing and said it was "glad no one is missing."
Detective Chief Neil Corrigan said in a statement that the beach was "extremely crowded" at the time of the incident and urged anyone with information to come forward.
"We are in the early stages of the investigation and would like to ask people not to speculate about the circumstances surrounding the case," he said.
He added that ambulance services "are doing everything in their power to help the families of the two deceased." Other ambulances dispatched to the scene included Southwest Ambulance Services, two air ambulances, Poole Coast Guard Rescue Team and Southbourne's Madford RNLI lifeboat.
The beach has also been removed and cordoned off along with a nearby jetty approach.
Southampton resident Eman Kamal was on the beach with his mother and three-month-old baby at the time. She told that lifeguards began calling people off the beach after 4pm BST because of a serious incident.
"About 20 minutes later the first rescue helicopter arrived and landed in the middle of the beach," she said.
“Lifeguards scoured the sea on jet skis and boats.” About 20 minutes later, a second rescue helicopter arrived and it took another hour and a half for the entire search and rescue operation to be completed. Catherine Walton, an Oxford resident who was also at the scene with her family, said she saw lifeguards and a "mass of rescuers". People flooded the beach.
She said people were being cleared from the beach area when several other rescue vehicles arrived.
Another witness, Trevor Pinto, was walking along the pier with his 16-year-old son and said the incident happened "very close".
He said they had watched lifeguards try to resuscitate the two, saying, "Wow, it took a while before we realized someone had died." seemed to be the same. He said it was very well organized and "properly prepared" for such incidents.
West Bournemouth Member of Parliament Connor Burns offered his condolences to the families of those who died and said the incident was "so much joy our beaches and seas can bring, but danger always exists. It's a useful lesson," he said.
"What a terrible thing to have happened while they were enjoying the fine weather in our city. "Very sad," he wrote on Twitter. "Thank you to the lifeguards and rescue helicopters we take for granted."
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A man in his 40s, who was on the water at the time, has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, according to Dorset Police.
An investigation into this incident has been launched.
It is not clear how the boy and girl who died in the hospital were seriously injured.
... Dorset Police work in conjunction with the Maritime Investigation Department and the Maritime and Coast Guard.
The Coast Guard conducted a search to make sure no one else was missing and said it was "glad no one is missing."
Detective Chief Neil Corrigan said in a statement that the beach was "extremely crowded" at the time of the incident and urged anyone with information to come forward.
"We are in the early stages of the investigation and would like to ask people not to speculate about the circumstances surrounding the case," he said.
He added that ambulance services "are doing everything in their power to help the families of the two deceased." Other ambulances dispatched to the scene included Southwest Ambulance Services, two air ambulances, Poole Coast Guard Rescue Team and Southbourne's Madford RNLI lifeboat.
The beach has also been removed and cordoned off along with a nearby jetty approach.
Southampton resident Eman Kamal was on the beach with his mother and three-month-old baby at the time. She told that lifeguards began calling people off the beach after 4pm BST because of a serious incident.
"About 20 minutes later the first rescue helicopter arrived and landed in the middle of the beach," she said.
“Lifeguards scoured the sea on jet skis and boats.” About 20 minutes later, a second rescue helicopter arrived and it took another hour and a half for the entire search and rescue operation to be completed. Catherine Walton, an Oxford resident who was also at the scene with her family, said she saw lifeguards and a "mass of rescuers". People flooded the beach.
She said people were being cleared from the beach area when several other rescue vehicles arrived.
Another witness, Trevor Pinto, was walking along the pier with his 16-year-old son and said the incident happened "very close".
He said they had watched lifeguards try to resuscitate the two, saying, "Wow, it took a while before we realized someone had died." seemed to be the same. He said it was very well organized and "properly prepared" for such incidents.
West Bournemouth Member of Parliament Connor Burns offered his condolences to the families of those who died and said the incident was "so much joy our beaches and seas can bring, but danger always exists. It's a useful lesson," he said.
"What a terrible thing to have happened while they were enjoying the fine weather in our city. "Very sad," he wrote on Twitter. "Thank you to the lifeguards and rescue helicopters we take for granted."
source(BBC)
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