BEACON – A woman who fell into Fishkill Creek in the City of Beacon on Tuesday, July 18 was a 42-year-old Beacon woman, police said on Thursday.
Sukanya Basu fell down a 15-foot embankment while having a picture taken by her daughter.
City police and firefighters as well as EMS personnel responded to the area of 50 Leonard Street where the woman was reported to have fallen into the rain-swollen creek.
She was located and pulled from the water in an unconscious and unresponsive state.
Basu was transported to Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital in Newburgh where she was pronounced dead, police said.
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