Police are frantically searching for an autistic 9-year-old girl who likely wandered into the Red Hook Channel in Brooklyn Wednesday night, according to law enforcement sources.
The nonverbal girl was last seen wearing a black shirt, blue shorts and orange Crocs inside the Ikea store at 1 Beard St. just before 9 p.m., police said.
Surveillance footage captured her walking out of the rear of the store toward the Erie Basin.
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Though there has been no sign of the girl, both of her orange Crocs were recovered from the water.
NYPD divers are searching for the girl in the channel waters.
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