Two young girls killed in NYC subway surfing accident

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Two young girls in New York City are dead following a suspected subway surfing tragedy.

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Zemfira Mukhtarov, 12, of Brooklyn, and 13-year-old Ebba Morina of Manhattan, were found “unconscious and unresponsive” on top of a train at the Marcy Avenue-Broadway subway station in Williamsburg early Saturday, police said, per the New York Post.

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Both girls were pronounced dead at the scene, bringing the total number of victims lost to the viral trend to five in the past year, police said.

“It’s heartbreaking that two young girls are gone because they somehow thought riding outside a subway train was an acceptable game,” New York City Transit Authority president Demetrius Crichlow said in a statement.

“Parents, teachers and friends need to be clear with loved ones: Getting on top of a subway car isn’t ‘surfing’ — it’s suicide.”

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He added that the families of the teens, as well as the transit workers who discovered the victims, were left “horribly shaken by this tragedy.”

Mukhtarov’s family were watching the local news when 11-year-old Maryam recognized her older sister’s skateboard and purse in the footage and alerted her mother.

“She said, ‘Mommy, that’s Zemfira’s,’” mother Nataliya Rudenko told WNYW.

“I said, no, it’s someone else’s.”

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However, the items were indeed her older daughter’s belongings.

Investigators believe that Zemfira met the other girl on social media, and the two snuck out of their homes that Friday night.

Their bodies were discovered hours later.

“She was supposed to be asleep in her room,” Rudenko told the outlet. “Now, we’re planning her funeral.”

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Zemfira’s dad Ruslan Mukhtarov has since created a GoFundMe to help cover funeral and memorial expenses.

“With heavy hearts, we are reaching out for support after the tragic loss of my beloved daughter, Zemfira, who passed away in a devastating accident at a subway station,” he shared, adding that she was just weeks away from her 13th birthday.

Describing his daughter as “full of life,” the dad asked for help in navigating the “heartbreaking” loss.

“No parent should ever have to face the pain of losing a child, and no child should lose their life in such a tragic way.”

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