Sunday, August 30, 2015

Another woman commits suicide by jumping in front of moving subway train in Brooklyn, NYC


NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, August 30, 2015, 1:16 AM


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NYPD Officers and NYC Transit personnel investigate the scene after a woman is fatally struck by a C train at Broadway Junction station.

A woman died after plunging in front of a moving subway train Saturday evening in Brooklyn, police officials said.

The woman, whose age and identify were not immediately revealed, either jumped or stumbled in front of a northbound train on the elevated A and C train tracks at Fulton St. and Van Siclen Ave. in East New York just after 8 p.m., cops said.

She was pronounced dead at the scene soon after.
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NYPD Officers and EMTs remove the body after a woman is fatally struck by a C train at Broadway Junction station.

Officials suspected no criminality in her death after several witnesses told cops that the woman was by herself when she fell onto the tracks, police said.

The subway fatality was the city’s second in just over a week, after an MTA maintenance worker leapt to her death on Aug. 21.
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NYPD Officers and EMTs remove the body after a woman is fatally struck by a C train at Broadway Junction station.

The worker, Kelly McClain, 45, jumped in front of a northbound 6 train at the 59th St. station.