Train Mangles Teen
Associated Press
MIAMI —
A teen-ager jumping between boxcars atop a moving freight train fell to the tracks Friday and the wheels severed an arm and a leg. The train also injured his head and spinal column, police said. The 16-year-old was in critical condition.
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