"The wave pool will remain closed today out of respect for the family," a park representative said in a statement Maria Pasquini is the senior news editor for the human interest vertical at PEOPLE.

The death of a 9-year-old girl in a Hersehypark wave pool has officially been ruled an accidental drowning — despite earlier speculation she’d suffered a medical episode. Sophia Subedi was pronounced ...

A traumatized witness has recalled the moment she saw a “limp” child being dragged out of a wave pool at Hersheypark’s water park in Pennsylvania — before lifeguards frantically tried but failed to ...

The wave pool at Hersheypark is back open days after a child died at the park. Park-goers reported being allowed to swim in the wave pool on Sunday, July 27. Hersheypark closed the pool all day Friday ...

Lifeguards noticed that the girl was in distress and tried to rescue her, according to the park, which said that the pool remained closed on Friday. By Neil Vigdor A 9-year-old girl died on Thursday ...