New York: Boating accident leaves at least three dead, two injured
Police rescued five of the six occupants from the boat. However, three were pronounced dead at the hospital. The search for the remaining passenger is ongoing.
Accident in New York
Authorities reported that at least three people were killed, two were injured, and another is missing after a boat capsized in a canal between Brooklyn and Staten Island on Sunday afternoon.
The New York Police Department stated that five of the six occupants of the boat were rescued following the accident in the Ambrose Channel, the main waterway separating Brooklyn and Staten Island. However, three of those rescued were pronounced dead at the hospital.
Five individuals were recovered "with two airlifted to Staten Island University Hospital and three taken to Coast Guard Station Sandy Hook where emergency medical services were waiting. Coast Guard crews administered CPR to some of the unresponsive victims," the Coast Guard stated.
The Coast Guard indicated that the incident began at 12:04 p.m. when it received a report from New York City 911 operators about a boat taking on water near Breezy Point, a neighborhood at the tip of Queens' Rockaway Peninsula.
According to the report, Coast Guard watchstanders issued an urgent marine information broadcast and deployed three rescue boats from Coast Guard Station New York and Station Sandy Hook, along with an MH-65 helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City.
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