Crews searching East River for missing 15-year-old girl

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- A search is underway in the East River for a girl who went missing on Friday.

The missing girl is preliminarily identified as a 15-year-old from the Upper East Side.

Witnesses reported a girl, wearing a flower-patterned bathing suit, was sitting on the rocks along the water, and then she disappeared.

Crews were set up near the Roosevelt Island Bridge.

No further details have been provided.

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