3 dead and 2 injured after boat capsizes near New York
At least three people are dead and two are injured after a boat overturned near New York on Sunday, officials said.
At least three people are dead and two are injured after a boat overturned near New York on Sunday, officials said.
Officials from the New York Fire Department, the New York Police Department and the U.S. Coast Guard responded to the Ambrose Channel after the NYPD got a distress call around noon.
The boat capsized in the Newport Walk area known as Breezy Point, the NYPD said. The Coast Guard, in a statement to NBC New York, described the area as "a neighborhood at the tip of Queens' Rockaway peninsula."
Six people were reportedly in the water after the boat capsized, the FDNY said.
Five people were rescued from the boat in the water and taken to local hospitals, where three died, the NYPD said. One person is in critical condition and another is in stable condition.
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