North Wildwood body ID'd as recent immigrant

NORTH WILDWOOD -- Officials say an Egyptian man who recently arrived in a New Jersey shore town to work on the boardwalk drowned in the ocean.

The man whose body was recovered this week in North Wildwood was identified Thursday as 24-year-old Ismail Ahmed Abdelmonem Ismail.

The state Southern Regional Medical Examiner ruled his drowning death as accidental.

They say he was identified through fingerprint analysis.

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