Two people were fatally struck by trains in the city Friday morning — a woman at Penn Station and a man in Queens, cops said.
The following written content by Georgett Roberts and Amanda Woods via NY Post
Two people were fatally struck by trains in the city Friday morning — a woman at Penn Station and a man in Queens, cops said.
Most recently, a witness reported to cops that a woman jumped in front of an oncoming northbound 1 train at 34th Street–Penn Station around 9:20 a.m., cops said.
The 40-year-old woman was pronounced dead on scene, police said.
The MTA initially tweeted that northbound 1, 2 and 3 trains were rerouted and delayed following the incident, Later, the agency said that regular service was beginning to resume, but to expect longer delays in both directions.
“It was chaos,” a maintenance worker said. “People didn’t know what to do, which train to [transfer to]….There were about seven [or] eight station managers out here trying to help.”
“You see people walking by, you never know what is going on with them,” he said, shaking his head. “This [corona]virus is affecting everybody.”
About six hours earlier, an adult man who had previously been on the tracks was struck by an oncoming M or R train at the Woodhaven Boulevard station, cops said. Read more from NY Post.
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