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New York Post's Subway Death Photo: Was It Ethical Photojournalism?

NY Post Cover

When a news photographer witnesses a tragedy in the making, is his obligation to intervene or to document it? That question has cropped up anew following the New York Post's publication, on its front page, of a photo taken moments after a man was pushed onto subway tracks, and moments before he was hit and killed by an oncoming train.

 

Egyptian train hits school bus, 49 children killed

Egyptian security officials say grieving families in the central province of Assiut have cut off roads and denied the prime minister access to the scene of a train accident that killed at least 49 kindergartners....

 

Train Collides With Veterans Parade in Texas, at Least Two Dead

At least two people were killed on Thursday when a train crashed into a veterans parade float in West Texas, according to an organizer of the event.

 

Worst train tragedy in Poland in years kills 16

Train Accident

Two trains running on the same track collided head-on in southern Poland in a shower of sparks, killing 16 people and injuring 58 in the country's worst train disaster in more than 20 years....

 

Mother pushes daughter out of train's path but can't save herself

Mother pushes daughter out of train's path but can't save herself

A Riverside woman pushing her 2-year-old in a stroller is killed by a train near her home Saturday. The stroller was twice lodged on the tracks, but the woman pushed her daughter out of the way. A Riverside woman died Saturday evening as she struggled to push a baby stroller over a gated railroad crossing and was struck by a passing train.

Senh: This is very sad. It's just bad judgement and unnecessary.

 

Possible bomb found after train hits woman

A police bomb squad was investigating the discovery of a suspicious device found near the body of a woman who was struck and killed by a freight train near a northwest Seattle park.

 

More bodies pulled from India train wreckage

More bodies pulled from India train wreckage

Rescue workers pulled more bodies Monday from the mangled wreckage of a passenger train that derailed in northern India, as the death toll climbed to 67.

 

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