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Man dragged to death by New York subway train after bag gets caught in door

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Yaw Boahene, 57, died after being dragged onto subway tracks by a closing door when his shopping bag got caught in Brooklyn around 6pm during rush hour. Police found him unconscious and unresponsive on the tracks; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

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On Monday evening around 6 p.m., Yaw Boahene, 57, of Brooklyn, died after his shopping bag got trapped between closing doors of a northbound A-train as he was exiting the Utica Avenue station in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Witnesses reported seeing him dragged backward by the train before falling onto the tracks and being struck by it. Emergency responders declared Boahene dead at the scene, with no criminality suspected. This incident is one of several rare but deadly subway accidents that have occurred recently in New York City, including an October 2022 case where a man died after his bag got caught in train doors.

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Brooklyn GPE · 2× New York GPE · 2× Yaw Boahene PERSON · 2× Boahene PERSON · 1×

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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 “unconscious and unresponsive” on the train tracks, police said.

framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-09-29

2026-09-29 · South China Morning Post

Man dragged to death by New York subway train after bag gets caught in door · assertive framing

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Man dragged to death by New York subway train after bag gets caught in door Yaw Boahene, 57, was pulled onto the tracks and run over by the train as it left the station, police say asserted

police → drag → station

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. asserted

police → drag → commute

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. asserted

police → exit → doors

police → pull → tracks

He was pronounced dead at the scene. asserted

He → pronounce → scene