New York Daily News

Woman found in Brooklyn surf dies

- Thomas Tracy

A partially clothed woman died early Tuesday after she was found floating facedown in the waters off Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach, officials said.

Cops were answering an unrelated call on Brightwate­r Ave. near the Reigelmann Boardwalk when a homeless man flagged them down saying a woman was facedown in the surf.

Officers called for EMS and pulled the woman, believed to be in her 50s, onto the sand. EMTs worked on the woman, also believed to be homeless, at the scene and then rushed her to Coney Island Hospital, where she died.

It was not immediatel­y clear how long the woman had been in the water. She showed no obvious signs of trauma, police said.

An autopsy has been slated to determine how the woman died.

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