Lifeguards at New York City beaches are only on-duty until 6 p.m. each night -- after that, heading into the water could be dangerous.
Drowning s at city beaches so far this year have already equaled last year's total and among the victims are two sisters who went for a swim off Coney Island Beach after hours and vanished.just hours later on Friday night and on Monday, their loved ones spoke out about the tragedy.Friday was an exception -- Aisha and Zainab Mohammed made a game-day decision to leave the Bronx to celebrate a cousin's birthday on the beach at Coney Island .
"When they were young, we go to Coney Island, but they never swim. Never. They even took steps in the water, they don't walk. They were afraid," Ahmed Faye said.On Friday evening around 8 p.m., near Stillwell Avenue and the boardwalk, witnesses say the sisters were enjoying the ocean and got out during a downpour, but decided to wade back in - even though they were cautioned not to.
"One of the boys tried to rescue them, but he couldn't, the current was so strong, and he couldn't," Ahmed Faye said. Lifeguards at New York City beaches are only on-duty until 6 p.m. each night. After that, heading into the water could be dangerous. "It's a tragedy that happened but they should be careful, swimming out there especially when there are no lifeguards around," said beachgoer Mel Freedman. "That is what we're seeing not only with the two girls, but with other people.""It's the heat and maybe even the cost of going on the beach, because they don't have the money, so they come after the lifeguards are gone," Freedman said.
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