Two youngsters died after being dragged underwater by a rip tide as they swam in water off New York.
The 2 13-year-old boys, recognized as Daniel Persaud and Ryan Wong, had been with a bunch of 5 buddies after they went lacking off the coast of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens.
Witnesses instructed PIX11 that the 2 kids, each from Queens, had been on a surfboard within the water when the rip present pulled them right into a deep channel about 30ft from the shore.
The 2 teenagers had been pulled underwater and by no means got here again to the floor.
“So the water was circling and the 2 of them dropped off [the surfboard], they usually went down,” a witness instructed the information station.
The boys, who had each reportedly skipped the final day of college on Friday with their buddies, had been pulled underwater, witnesses mentioned, and by no means resurfaced.
Two youngsters died after being dragged underwater by a rip tide as they swam within the water off New York
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Six rescue boats from the FDNY, NYPD, Coast Guard and the town’s Parks Division responded together with two dive groups and an NYPD helicopter.
One of many youngsters was pulled out of the water inside minutes of rescuers arriving and was rushed to the hospital, the place he died.
The second swimmer’s physique was recovered about half-hour after the search started.
The three different members of the group had been unhurt and didn’t have to be rescued from the water.