A 19-year-old boy drowned on Friday night while swimming near the shores of Jacob Riis Park at the Rockaway Peninsula, police said.
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The NYPD identified Amadou Thiam, a Brooklyn resident, as the second teenager to apparently drown at a New York City-area beach this week. Officials were on the scene around 7:45 p.m. on Friday after responding to reports of a drowning. Thiam’s body washed ashore roughly two hours later — around 9:45 p.m., police said. He was taken to Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, where he was pronounced dead.
Police could not immediately say if lifeguards were on duty at the time of the teenager’s drowning, but lifeguard hours for the swimming beach at Jacob Riis end at 6 p.m., according to the National Park Service’s
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