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The deaths mark the fifth and sixth subway surfing fatalities in 2025 amid a surge in dangerous stunts fueled by social media, with 229 citations issued by NYPD this year.
- Early Saturday, investigators say Zemfira Mukhtarov, 12, of Brooklyn, and Ebba Morina, 13, were found dead atop a Brooklyn‑bound J train at Marcy Avenue‑Broadway station after an apparent subway surfing attempt.
- Investigators believe the two girls met on social media and snuck out of their Brooklyn homes late Friday, joining about 15 teens running inside the train before some climbed onto the roof.
- Last month, Mukhtarov posted daredevil TikTok videos, and her mother said `She was supposed to be asleep in her room`, Rudenko said.
- Officials say enforcement has increased as the MTA expanded its Ride Inside, Stay Alive campaign and police issued 229 citations so far in 2025, with drones intercepting more than 130 children this year.
- Looking at recent years, data show five deaths in 2023 and six in 2024 due to subway surfing, far above the five deaths between 2018 and 2022.
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Tragic Subway Surfing Accident Results In Death Of Two Brooklyn Girls
Two girls, aged 12 and 13, have lost their lives after surfing on the outside of a Brooklyn subway carriage. They have been identified as Zemfira Mukhtarov, 12, of Brooklyn, and Ebba Morina, 13. It has been revealed that the two children had snuck out of their homes to fool around in New York on October 4th. During their night of mischief, the young women decided to risk their lives by riding on the outside of the J train in Brooklyn. At 3:10 a…
Two young girls were found dead on the roof of a Brooklyn subway car in New York. Zemphira Mukhtarov, 12 years old, from Brooklyn, and Ebba Morina, 13 years old, from Manhattan, are...
The dawn of Saturday, October 4, surprised New York City with a new tragedy on its tracks. Two teenagers were found alive on the roof of a J-line train, after crossing the Williamsburg Bridge to Brooklyn. What started as a social media challenge ended in tragedy; the young girls, barely 12 and 13 years old, had joined the dangerous trend of subway surfing, a practice that consists of climbing outside the moving wagons to record risk videos that …
Young girls, 12 and 13, killed in horrific NYC subway surfing tragedy ID’d: ‘Full of life, and taken from us far too soon’
Zemfira Mukhtarov, 12, of Brooklyn, and Ebba Morina, 13, of Manhattan, were found unconscious and unresponsive on top of a Brooklyn-bound J train at the Marcy Avenue-Broadway subway station in Williamsburg around 3:10 a.m. on Saturday, cops and sources said.
See it: Drones stop teens from subway surfing
NEW YORK (PIX11) -- Two teenagers attempting to subway surf were stopped with help from the NYPD's transit drone team on Monday, according to the NYPD. The drones spotted the teens, allowing officers to intervene and hold the train in the station, police say. More Local News Five people have died while subway surfing so far this year, according to the NYPD. Early Saturday morning, two teenage girls were found dead after subway surfing nea…
12-year-old Brooklyn girl killed subway surfing days before 13th birthday
Her mother, Nataliya Rudenko says she learned about the incident while watching the news that same morning. Rudenko says she was making breakfast when her 11-year-old daughter spotted a skateboard and a purse in the TV footage.
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