Four Dead After Car Rolls Into New York City Waterway

[April 05, 2014]  (Reuters) — Four passengers were killed after a car plunged into a waterway linked to New York City's East River late on Friday evening, police and fire officials said.

Rescue divers pulled four occupants — two men and two women — alive from the vehicle submerged in Steinway Creek but they died on arrival at area hospitals, New York Police Department spokesman Adam Navarro said.

The fifth occupant, a 20-year-old man who was the driver, escaped the car on his own with lesser injuries.

The incident, whose cause was unknown, occurred near a dead-end street in an industrial district of the New York borough of Queens at about 10:30 p.m. (0230 GMT), fire department spokesman Michael Parrella said.

(Reporting by Eric M. Johnson; editing by Mark Heinrich)

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