A mother and her two children drowned after the woman jumped into a river carrying at least one of the children with her.

Vermont State police declared they had found the bodies of Nicole Waring, 40, and of her two little girls, Dakota and Grace.

Waring was reported missing Saturday, before 7 a.m., after disappearing from her parents’ Wardsboro house together with her girls.

Before starting the search for the missing three, State Police Sgt. Robert McCarthy noticed Waring and one of her children near the edge of Wardsboro Brook, which was swollen due to rain and snowmelt. McCarthy tried to talk to the woman, asking her to come out of the water, but he was completely ignored. He said the water was turbulent and deep, and the woman was standing in waist-deep water when he tried to grasp her. She allegedly escaped her savior, jumping into the water with her girl Dakota in her arms. The two were immediately swept away, McCarthy said, according to the Associated Press.

"For whatever reason, it was a deliberate action," said Vermont State Police Capt. David Covell, who still has not classified the jump as suicide.

The bodies of the woman and her 6-year-old daughter were found Saturday and pronounced dead.

Sunday morning, police started searching for the other child’s body, who was 2 years and a half old. They soon found her body, not far away from where her mother was found on Saturday.

Preliminary autopsy results indicate that the cause of the three deaths is drowning.