Two men died, one of them electrocuted by the third rail, and a third was hospitalized in the city’s subway system during separate incidents Thursday, officials said.
The mayhem began about 1 a.m. when a 49-year-old man was found dead on the floor of a downtown A train near the 42nd St. station in Midtown.
Investigators believe he died of natural causes.
First responders found the second victim about 60 feet into the tunnel at the 4/5/6 platform at the 96th St. station after responding to a smoke condition about 2:10 p.m.
He had been electrocuted and was dead on the third rail, police sources said.
About an hour later, a 46-year-old man fell from the platform onto the train tracks at the 57th St. station just as a Q train was coming into the station.
The motorman hit the brakes but not before the first subway car rolled over the man, who miraculously didn’t make contact with the train above him.
Medics managed to pull him from under the train and bring him to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries. He was conscious and alert when he was taken out of the station, police said.
None of the victims’ names were immediately released.
The deaths come a day after the MTA announced it planned to slash between 1,900 and 2,700 jobs to save as much as $500 million annually over the next three years under a new agency reorganization plan.
