Two Indian origin 24-year-old friends from New Jersey, Malaika Chitre and Navam Kaul, were fatally struck by a New York City subway train after they were seen sitting on the tracks at Manhattan’s Spring Street station early Sunday,a s per a TOI report. The pair, both recent Rutgers University graduates, were hit by a southbound No. 4 train shortly after 3 am, with investigators still trying to establish what led them onto the tracks.
The New York Police Department said officers responded to a report of two people needing assistance at about 3:14 am on September 13. Emergency responders found Chitre and Kaul on the roadbed after they had been struck, and both were pronounced dead at the scene. Around 100 passengers were later evacuated from the train, according to reports.
