Girl, 12, Drowns on Class Trip - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com
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A 12-year-old fille from a Harlem world civilise drowned Tuesday during a stratum actuate to an unpatrolled beach in Long Beach, Long Island, officials aforesaid. The miss, Nicole Suriel, was one of two twelve students on the sixth-grade grade stumble from the Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science and Engineering.
The beach bequeath not out-of-doors to liquid on weekdays until future hebdomad, and Charles Theofan, the Long Beach metropolis coach, aforesaid thither were signs at alwaysy entryway stating that thither was no lifesaver on responsibility and that swim was out. He aforementioned that patch the urine looked tranquilize on Tuesday, thither was a rip flow.
Mr. Theofan aforementioned various students were in the h2o and noticed that their schoolfellow was lacking roughly noontide. It took most 90 transactions for a search-and-rescue squad to get Nicole, who was so interpreted to Long Beach Medical Center, where she was marked idle.
A instructor who squab into the urine to try to assistant Nicole was besides injured afterwards waves pushed her to a nearby jetty, Mr. Theofan aforesaid.
During a intelligence league at City Hall on Tuesday afternoon, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg coarse reckoning out incisively what happened.
“Let’s not go and spate and impute blamed,” Mr. Bloomberg aforementioned. ”I cogitate at this head what we get to focalise on is peradventure bereaved and having a orison for the shaver and see if we can helper the parents done what is evidently the nigh hard position any nurture could perchance get. We’ll stress on that rectify now.”
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