Police: Man drowns while trying to save children in deep water on Long Island

By Eyewitness News
MATTITUCK, Long Island (WABC) -- Police have recovered the body of a man who went into the Mattituck Inlet to help some children who had gone in too deep.

The 41-year-old man slipped in the water.

Officials found his body late Wednesday afternoon.

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