A determined seek for a lacking 15-year-old woman feared drowned in New York Metropolis’s East River underneath the Roosevelt Island Bridge entered its second day Saturday.
After an evening of heavy rains, NYPD scuba divers have been anticipated to return into the waters between Queens and Roosevelt Island on Saturday and try to recuperate the woman’s physique, officers mentioned.
The woman was sitting on the rocks, carrying a showering go well with with a flower sample on it, when she fell into the river, police mentioned Saturday.
NYPD officers search by property belonging to the sufferer after a 15-year-old woman went lacking on Friday, Could 30, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Day by day Information)
The teenager entered the East River at about 12:15 p.m. on Friday, cops mentioned. When she didn’t resurface, a buddy she was with known as 911.
Responding officers discovered a bookbag close to the water that they consider belongs to the teenager, who has not been publicly recognized.
Cops haven’t recovered any our bodies within the East River within the final 24 hours, a police spokesman mentioned.
Divers from the FDNY and NYPD search the East River close to the Roosevelt Island Bridge after a 15-year-old woman went lacking on Friday, Could 30, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Day by day Information)
The currents within the East River are fairly robust, and should have been one of many causes why the Mexican Navy ship Cuauhtémoc crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge earlier this month.
“Our currents and tides are very strong,” Adams mentioned when the Cuauhtémoc crashed. “People don’t realize that people fall in the river by the Statue of Liberty and find themselves in the Bronx somewhere.”
