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This is the disturbing 911 call made by a father after he allegedly tried to drown his young daughters in a pond.

Alan Tysheen Eugene Lassiter can be heard telling an emergency operator: "They're gone."

The two girls, aged three and five, were pulled from the pond by an off-duty police officer on Sunday night, cops said in a statement.

Their seven-year-old brother was able to escape and seek help, officers in Durham, North Carolina, said.

Lassiter, 29, of Raleigh was charged with three counts of attempted murder and was being held in jail on a $2.5 million bond.

In a 911 call released by police, a man who identified himself as the children’s father said he had drowned his two daughters in a lake near an apartment complex.

"They're gone," he said.

He said he had been trying to seek help from authorities who instead sought to take his children away.

“All I wanted was help," he said, sounding desperate. "Nobody helped me.”

The two girls were given CPR and taken to a local hospital, where the three-year-old remained in critical condition on Monday.

The five-year-old was in stable condition, police said.

Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez said the children’s mother was at the hospital with them.

Statements made by the boy to police prompted a third attempted murder charge, the chief said.

“Whether you have children or not, you're impacted by young lives that are placed in such a horrendous situation,” Lopez said at a press conference on Monday.