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57-year-old New York man identified as Yaw Boahene killed after bag was caught in subway train doors
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The incident happened on Monday when the man, identified as 57-year-old Yaw Boahene, was leaving a Manhattan-bound train at the Utica Avenue station in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood when his shopping bag became caught between the subway’s doors.
A man in Brooklyn, New York, died after his bag got caught between the doors of a subway train, which then dragged him down.
While subway accidents are rare, in 2022 a 20-year-old man was killed after his clothes were caught between the doors of a 1 train at Columbus Circle station in Manhattan during rush hour.
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