New York man killed after bag caught in subway train doors, police say
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Tue, 29 September 2026
3 reports- The Guardian World16:20first to report
Man, 57, was reportedly leaving A train at Utica Avenue station when stuck bag dragged him back and on to tracks A man in Brooklyn, New York , died after his bag got caught between the doors of a subway train which then dragged him down. On Monday, a man was leaving a Manhattan-bound A train at the Utica Avenue station in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood when his shopping bag became caught between the subway’s doors. Continue reading...
- greeleytribune.com21:47
Yaw Adu Boahene, 66, walking unsteadily with a cane, was getting off an A train at the Utica Ave. station in Bedford-Stuyvesant when killed.
- South China Morning Post21:59
A man was dragged to death by a New York subway train when a bag he was carrying got stuck in the door during the Monday evening rush hour commute, police said. Yaw Boahene, 57, was exiting the train at a Brooklyn subway station at around 6pm when his bag, which police described as a shopping bag, snagged in the closing train doors. The Brooklyn resident was pulled onto the tracks and run over by the train as it left the station, police said in a statement. Officers arrived to find Boahene...