At least one died in the helicopter -river disaster

At least one person died after the helicopter crashed into the Hudson River in New York, the authorities said on Thursday.

The New York Police Department said at least two people were stretched out of the water, although their condition remains unclear, the CBS News official, an American partner of the BBC, said. It is unclear whether the person who reported the dead was one of the two people who pulled out of the river.

Sea and land units are on the site of the disaster, but it remains unclear how many people were aboard.

A video that circulates in social media shows that several debris floats in the river.

The accident, which occurred around 3:15 pm EDT (20:15 GMT), happened closer to the side of New Jersey Hadson.

It seems that in New Yar the crash site is near the marina 40.

The boat traffic and street traffic in the area was stopped.

The BBC journalist, located at the top of the World Trade Center during the disaster, said there were about a dozen boats that surround the catastrophe.

Tourists gathered on the building on one side of the tower to look at the scene, he added.