U.S: A 15-year-old boy who was underground surfing in Brooklyn fell from a train and died

A 15-year-old boy who was surf­ing under­ground in Brook­lyn has died after falling from a train, police said.

A teenag­er fell from a south­bound J train on the Williams­burg Bridge around 11:30 a.m. Thurs­day, the New York Police Depart­ment said in a statement.

The child fell under the train and hit an elec­tri­fied third rail, the state­ment added.

Police rushed to the scene, but the boy was pro­nounced dead.

The Met­ro­pol­i­tan Trans­porta­tion Author­i­ty, which over­sees pub­lic tran­sit in the New York met­ro­pol­i­tan area, did not imme­di­ate­ly respond to a request for comment.

Thurs­day’s inci­dent comes after sev­er­al report­ed cas­es of under­ground surf­ing this year and last year.

In June, a 15-year-old boy who was under­ground surf­ing on a train in New York was seri­ous­ly injured after hit­ting his head.

Police said at the time that the boy had suf­fered a “severe head injury” after hit­ting his head on an “unknown object” while he was believed to be rid­ing on top of a car that entered the station.

Ear­li­er that month, a video post­ed on social media showed about eight peo­ple under­ground surf­ing, run­ning and danc­ing on a north­bound J train pass­ing over the Williams­burg Bridge. .

Thurs­day’s inci­dent isn’t the first time under­ground surf­ing has been dead­ly. In Octo­ber 2021, a 32-year-old man died after also falling onto the tracks while board­ing a J train over the Williams­burg Bridge.

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