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Three men in NYC are dead after jumping in front of subway trains in Manhattan over an eight-hour period in a single day
UPDATED: 17:35 EDT, 11 July 2023
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The three men all died following incidents on subway lines in Manhattan on Monday
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One man, Samuel Cohen, was rushed to hospital after being hit by a 2 train on the Upper West Side of the city where he later died from his injuries
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Despite the close proximity of time between their deaths, the incidents do not appear to be connected
Three men killed themselves by jumping in front of moving subway trains in separate incidents in Manhattan on Monday.
Emergency services responded to three separate incidents across an eight hour window at different stations across the city.
Shortly after 10:30am yesterday they had been called to West 72nd street station on the Upper West Side of the city after Samuel Cohen, 22, was struck by a 2 train.
Less than five hours later, 47-year-old Colin Murphy died after being hit by a 6 train at East 86th and Lexington Avenue station where he was pronounced dead.
Then at 6:40pm, Anthony Collado, 42, also died at the scene after he collided with an uptown Q train at East 63rd and Lexington Avenue.
Medics rushed Cohen to St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital but he could not be saved, police confirmed.
Police said it wasn’t clear if Cohen jumped in front of the train or had earlier climbed down onto the tracks, but the incident was considered a suicide.
It is not the first time that three men have died in one day on the New York subway system.
In November of last year, three men were also struck by Manhattan trains within hours of each other overnight.
Police at the time told the New York Post that one man had hopped onto the tracks to retrieve something that had fallen when he was hit by a train.
Police at the time told the New York Post that one man had hopped onto the tracks to retrieve something that had fallen when he was hit by a train.
Latest figures by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, who run the subway, show that last year the number of deaths on subway train tracks soared to 88.
There were 1,364 incidents involving people on the tracks in 2022, including the 88 fatalities.
DailyMail.com has approached both the New York Police Department and Mount Sinai for further comment.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12287765/Three-men-dead-jumping-subway-trains-Manhattan-eight-hour-period.html
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