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School Officials Investigate Girl's Drowning

NY1 06/23/2010 16:38
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School officials are investigating the circumstances that led to the drowning of a 12-year-old Harlem girl on a school trip to a Long Island beach.



The office of the Special Commissioner of Investigation is looking into Nicole Suriel's death.

The sixth grader was on a school trip to Long Beach with about two-dozen classmates from the Columbia Secondary School when she got caught in a riptide – setting off a massive search.

Her body was found more than an hour later, and she could not be revived.

"She was one of the sweetest girls ever. She cared about everybody, and she was always there,” said a friend of the victim.

Signs posted at the beach warned that there were no lifeguards on duty at the time. Her family and friends are questioning why the children were allowed to swim without a lifeguard present.


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