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Harlem schoolgirl on field trip drowns off Long Beach

Published: June 22, 2010 10:26 PM
By ANDREW STRICKLER  andrew.strickler@newsday.com

Quick ReadA 12-year-old girl on a school trip was pulled unconscious from a Long Beach beach and later pronounced dead, a city official said.

Family photo of Nicole Suriel from 2009. Suriel

Photo credit: WCBS | Family photo of Nicole Suriel from 2009. Suriel drowned in the surf at Long Beach on June 22, 2010.

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A 12-year-old girl on a field trip with her Harlem classmates drowned while swimming off Long Beach Tuesday, where no lifeguards were on duty.

A teacher at Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science and Engineering - one of three chaperones looking after sixth-grader Nicole Suriel - was injured as she was tossed against a stone jetty while trying to rescue the girl, officials said.

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