Two teenage girls have been killed in a reported "subway-surfing" tragedy in New York.
The girls, one of whom was just 13, were found lying on top of a train at Marcy Avenue Broadway station in Brooklyn in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Police attended the scene in Williamsburg at around 3.10am and both teens were confirmed dead at the scene.
‘Subway-surfing’ is a trend that sees youths climb on top of trains and ride them, instead of safely getting inside the carriages.
According to witnesses, the girls were spotted earlier running inside the carriages among a group of about 15 teenagers before their bodies were found on the roof, The Sun reports.
NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow said: "It’s heart-breaking 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.
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."
These deaths bring the total number of subway-surfing victims this year to five.
Officers confirmed one of the girls was 13, while the other was aged between 13 and 18.
Three teenage boys were questioned by police outside the station and two of them were driven away in a vehicle. Investigators were also seen carrying plastic bags and a skateboard out of the station but it is unknown if these were related to the tragic incident.
In July, 15-year-old Carlos Oliver, from the Bronx, died after he fell from the top of southbound train as it headed into Queensboro Plaza Station at 2.45am.
And in March, Gustavo Guaman-Quizhpilema, 12, from Queens, was fatally injured after falling from a train at 111th street station in Corona. He died in hospital four days later.
Last year, six people were killed while subway-surfing, and five deaths linked to the trend were reported in 2023.
