Search underway for 15-year-old girl who plunged into East River on Roosevelt Island: police

Cops and firefighters are scouring the East River for a missing 15-year-old girl who bystanders said plunged into the current after dropping her phone in the water Friday afternoon.Police responded to a 911 call on Roosevelt Island shortly after noon on reports of a missing teen — and found the missing girl’s distraught pal next to the water, according to authorities and witnesses.“I’m in shock,” bystander Maria Gomez told The Post.“This never happens here.

Everyone knows the dangers that’s on [the East River], that current.It’s sad.”The missing teen’s friend sat nearby with police as the search continued into the afternoon.Two books, a bag, sneakers and some clothing sat on the hood of an NYPD squad car — the missing girl’s belongings, police at the scene confirmed.

Cops said the girl was wearing a bathing suit with flowers on it when she went into the water.“My friend told me [she saw] a little girl fall in,” a man who asked to be identified only as Joel said.“She saw her going over the railing.

She hopped the fence, she slipped on the rocks.That’s what I heard.

She was on the rocks, she slipped and fell in.”Meanwhile, NYPD and FDNY boats continued to search the river near the scene, which is alongside the Roosevelt Island Bridge near 688 Main Street, police said.Cops did not confirm why the girl went into the water.

But bystanders said it is believed she dropped her phone in and may have gone after it before she was allegedly caught in the strong East River currents....