Why? That is a question not to be answered on this side of heaven, Mike...but it shows you care to have it bother you.
Kids have been doing stuff and getting in trouble from stories I heard as long as there have been kids...or so it seems.
Sometimes, there is the ultimate price to pay.
God knows the situation, whether inattention was to blame or just kids being mischievous kids.
Tragedy is all around us, driven home when it hits closest to home. It's a fallen world we live in Master Jack, and why we must keep telling people about God's love and salvation, for there is no alternative...we live, we die, but there is hope if we profess and follow a path.
I'm done...suffice it to say there is no answer to such things... I will join Keith in prayers for those kids souls, their parents to mend their ways and for your heartache to ease