TWO teenage girls including a 13-year-old have been found dead in a suspected subway-surfing tragedy in New York.
The young pair were found on top of a train at Marcy Avenue-Broadway station in Brooklyn in the early hours of Saturday.
Local cops rushed to the station in Williamsburg at 3:10am, before pronouncing the two girls dead at the scene.
The subway-surfing trend involves passengers climbing on top of trains and riding on them, rather than getting inside the carriages.
The latest deaths bring the total number of subway-surfing victims this year to five, according to police.
Authorities confirmed the two girls were found on top of the Brooklyn-bound J train.
One of the girls was 13 years old, while the other is believed to be between the ages of 13 and 18.
NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow said: “It’s heartbreaking that two young girls are gone because they somehow thought riding outside a subway train was an acceptable game.
“Parents, teachers, and friends need to be clear with loved ones: getting on top of a subway car isn’t ‘surfing’— it’s suicide.”
He continued: “I’m thinking of both the grieving families, and transit workers who discovered these children, all of whom have been horribly shaken by this tragedy.”
Officers were also seen speaking to three teen boys inside the station, before driving two of the them away in a car.
Witnesses also reported seeing cops carrying plastic bags and a skateboard out of the station, but it is unclear if any of the items belonged to the victims.
The tragic girls were with a group of some 15 teens running around inside the train before they were found dead on the roof, witnesses told cops.
In 2024, six people died after subway surfing, while in 2023 five deaths related to the trend were reported.
In July this year, a 15-year-old boy was killed when he fell off a southbound 7 train around 2:45 a.m. as it pulled into the Queensboro Plaza station.
The tragic death made Carlos Oliver, from the Bronx, the latest suspected victim of the deadly trend.
And on March 14, 12-year-old Gustavo Guaman-Quizhpilema from Queens was critically injured while involved in another example of subway-surfing.
The young boy was riding on top of a 7 train at the 111th Street station in Corona around 8:15 a.m.
He tragically died four days after plunging from the train.
Source: https://www.the-sun.com/news/15293117/teen-girls-killed-subway-surfing-new-york-train/
