A 13-year-old girl drowned in the water off a Jersey Shore beach, according to police.<\/p>\n
Calls came in to police just after 6:30 p.m. about a swimmer in distress off the 8th Avenue beach in Belmar. When officers arrived, they found one swimmer was out of the water, but another child was still missing.<\/p>\n
Water rescue teams arrived at the scene to conduct a search. Around 7:30 p.m., the teenage girl was found unresponsive in the water off about a block away, according to police. She was pulled out of the water, with lifeguards and EMS performing CPR in an effort to resuscitate her.<\/p>\n
The teen was taken to Jersey Shore University Hospital, where she died, police said.<\/p>\n
Further information was not available. Lifeguards were off-duty at the time of the drowning, and are generally off-duty after 6 p.m. at many Jersey Shore beaches.<\/p>\n
It marks the second deadly drowning along the Jersey Shore in just a week. On Monday, five family members had to be plucked out of the ocean after they got caught in a rip current in Seaside Heights<\/a>. <\/p>\n One of the family members, a 31-year-old man from Trenton, died, police said. Two other swimmers were taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n Fire department officials said the people were swimming in unprotected beaches at the time of the rescue.<\/p>\n There were reports of 12 other people who got stuck in a rip current over the weekend and needed to be rescued, according to the Seaside Heights Fire Department. <\/p>\n