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Five people, including three children and two adults, are recovering at a local hospital after electrocution at an Indiana swimming pool, according to reporting from national news outlets. 

The incident happened over the weekend at a home in Logansport, Indiana, an almost two-hour drive from Indianapolis, when the swimmers “felt a vibration in the water.” That was when a father at the home called for the submersible pump to be shut off. At least two of the five people injured were unresponsive by the time emergency responders were called out to the home. 

Officials told reporters that a pump wire near the pool’s ladder was pinched, allowing a protective cover to break that left the wire exposed. When it touched the water, it shocked whoever was in the pool at the time. One of the people who was injured, a 15-year-old boy, was able to jump out of the pool once the power was shut off and “save his dad and his sister and his sister’s friends’ lives.”