{"id":139412,"date":"2026-01-27T04:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T04:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/139412\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T04:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T04:11:06","slug":"north-texas-community-mourns-after-three-elementary-students-drown-in-bonham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/139412\/","title":{"rendered":"North Texas community mourns after three elementary students drown in Bonham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A North Texas community is mourning the loss of three elementary students after they drowned in Bonham, officials confirm Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed the drownings, adding that it is not investigating. The three children have not yet been identified.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are devastated by this unimaginable loss, and our thoughts are with the family, friends, and all who knew and loved these children,&#8221; Bonham Independent School District said in a letter to families obtained by CBS News Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Bonham ISD said in the letter to families that counselors would be available to meet with students and staff this week. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Fannin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is investigating. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. CBS News Texas will add updates as they become available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A North Texas community is mourning the loss of three elementary students after they drowned in Bonham, officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2412,430,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-139412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-drowning","9":"tag-north-texas","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}