Two teenage girls die in suspected subway surfing on Brooklyn J train

Two teenage girls were found dead early Saturday on the roof of a Brooklyn subway train in what police are treating as a suspected subway surfing incident, authorities said. Officers responding to a 911 call at about 3:10 a.m. discovered the two unconscious and unresponsive on the last car of a Queensbound J train as it entered the Marcy Avenue Broadway station in Williamsburg. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.

One victim has been identified as 13 years old; police said the other is also a teenager but have not released a confirmed age or the victims' identities while relatives are being notified. Detectives are investigating the deaths as connected to subway surfing, the practice of riding on the outside of moving railcars. Officers questioned three teenage boys at the station and drove two away in a police vehicle. No arrests have been made and police said they were not treating the deaths as the result of criminal activity as the inquiry continues.

Train service on the J line was partially suspended between the Myrtle Avenue and Delancey Street Essex Street stops for several hours during the investigation, with normal traffic resuming around 7 a.m. Transit workers and...