Police Believe 3 Children Drowned by Mother at NYC Beach

Police Believe 3 Children Drowned by Mother at NYC Beach
The beach at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, in a file photo. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
The Associated Press
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NEW YORK—Three children were found dead in the surf off Brooklyn’s famed Coney Island boardwalk early Monday and police believe they may have been drowned by their mother.

The bodies of the 7-year-old boy, 4-year-old girl, and 3-month-old girl were found after a nearly three-hour search that began at 1:40 a.m. when a relative called police, worried the woman intended to harm her children.