Two brothers, aged 1 and 3, drown after falling into the family pool while aunt, 16, was supposed to be looking after them

TWO toddler brothers tragically drowned in a swimming pool while their teenage aunt was looking after them on Wednesday.

Hunter George Smith, 3, and Hayden Lewis Smith, 1, were pulled out of the pool in the backyard of their family’s home in Uniontown, Pennsylvania at around 7:20 p.m.

Cops and rescue teams were called to the home and tried desperately to revive the siblings at the scene and en route to Uniontown Hospital, but they were pronounced dead there.

The boys’ grandma, Debbie Smith, 46, who has custody of the children, told KDKA that the boys being looked after by two teenage relatives when the incident happened, while she was at work.

Their 16-year-old aunt, Abbie Smith, had returned from high school band camp and given the boys a bath to prepare them for bed.

Their grandma said the children got outside the house, walked around the above-ground pool, up the steps and then fell in, WTAE reported.

Authorities are investigating how the boys ended up in the pool.

‘CURIOUS GEORGES’

The grandma told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that their grandfather, Franklin Hough, and aunt Hannah Smith, were the ones to retrieve the kids from the water.

Debbie said: “Frankie had him on the table doing CPR.

“Frankie jumped in the pool, clothes and all.’

“I ran. I ran. And then I saw Hunter laying on the table.”

The grieving gran added that the boys were “curious Georges”.

Abbie said that Hunter and Hayden loved playing with toys and watching Spider-Man and Batman.

The family threw Hunter a Spider-Man themed party for his birthday on June 3 ahead of him starting  preschool in August, and was excited about riding the school bus, the Tribune-Review reported.

Drowning is the leading cause of death for children between 1 and 4 years old among preventable injuries with around 1,000 children drowning each year in the US.

Of those 57 per cent occur in pools.