A girl within the swimming pool of her Bronx residence advanced was killed Monday when a tree fell into the pool.
Donna Douglas, 59, was pronounced useless at River Terrace Residences. The reason for her demise has not been launched.
A 72-year-old lady who was additionally within the pool suffered minor accidents.
The tree — which appeared from aerial photographs to be at the least 50 toes tall — fell from the adjoining property at about 1:30 p.m. Monday, residents say. River Terrace is one in every of a row of residence towers overlooking the Hudson River within the Spuyten Duyvil neighborhood of the Bronx.
A neighbor instructed a TV reporter that Douglas was an avid lap swimmer, “all the time within the pool.”
On Saturday, a person sitting at a playground in Brooklyn’s Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood was struck by a falling tree limb. He died in a hospital.