According to officials, the 19-year-old, who was rescued Friday night, has died.
A teen swimmer has died after sparking a massive and urgent search by helicopters and drones Friday night when he went missing in the waters off a Queens beach.
The victim, identified as Amadou Thiam, was rushed to Coney Island Hospital after beachgoers spotted his body at Jacob Riis Park.The victim was with four other friends cooling off when he got trapped in a heavy rip current on Friday. They had just called off a search that lasted for hours after the teen disappeared in the heavy rip current in the Rockaways.It was Dominic Nixon and his friends who spotted the 19-year-old.Harold Miles was there when a group of five teens ran into the water but only four returned.
"They all just ran in - these two brothers were going in, and one was going further than the other and the other was like 'I'm turning around, that's too far for me,' and turned around to go back...and looked for his brother, he was gone," Miles said.This is the second swimmer who went missing in two days.. As of Friday night, he was still missing.
Jacob Riis Park is open daily from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Lifeguards are on duty daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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