Two teenagers died while swimming at New York’s Coney Island Beach in Brooklyn. The New York Police Department says it received an emergency call for a water rescue in the area of Stillwell Avenue and Boardwalk West at 8:10 p.m. Friday. Police say arriving officers were informed two females, aged 17 and 18, had gone into the water and disappared from view. Police from the department’s aviation, harbor, scuba units conducted a search. Divers eventually removed both the young women from the water. Police say the swimmers were transported to NYC Health and Hospitals/Coney Island where they were pronounced dead. Witnesses told WABC-TV that a rain storm began and most people at the beach took shelter, but the two young women went into the rough ocean water.
