Cops and firefighters are scouring the East River for a missing 15-year-old girl who bystanders said plunged into the current after dropping her phone in the water Friday afternoon.
Police responded to a 911 call on Roosevelt Island shortly after noon on reports of a missing teen — and found the missing girl’s distraught pal next to the water, according to authorities and witnesses.
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“I’m in shock,” bystander Maria Gomez told The Post. “This never happens here. Everyone knows the dangers that’s on [the East River], that current. It’s sad.”
The missing teen’s friend sat nearby with police as the search continued into the afternoon…