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SILVER SPRING, MD — A teenage girl died Friday while riding on the outside of a train car en route to a Silver Spring Metro station, the transit agency confirmed. "We are deeply saddened to learn that a teenage girl lost her life this morning while riding outside of a train car en route to the Silver Spring station. Our thoughts are with the victim’s family," Metro said in a statement. It's unclear what caused the girl to die or where authorities located her.

Dicing with death on SA trains By Franz Kruger BBC News, Johannesburg Train surfing involves different and often very dangerous moves Thabo Thedise knows his hobby is dangerous. "Yes, I can fall, but I can phone my mom, she can take me to the doctor," he says. The tall 19-year-old is one of Johannesburg's "train surfers": mostly young men who perform daring stunts on the city's commuter trains. The most dangerous is train surfing proper, standing on top and dodging bridges and high-power cables. Then there's a trick that involves swinging out of a door as the train travels through...