A severed human leg was found on New York City subway tracks in the Bronx on Saturday.
The leg is believed to be the partial remains of a man who was dragged for miles by a subway train.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) workers found the leg on Saturday afternoon in the path of the northbound 4 train between the 167 Street and 170 Street stations.
A man, whose identity has not been released, had been hit by the train miles away and days before the leg was discovered.
The New York Post reports:A man’s body was discovered Monday, Feb. 12 after either falling or jumping on the tracks– at least 9 miles away at the Spring Street station in lower Manhattan, according to police.
Investigators say no criminality is suspected in that death, but they could not find the left leg of that man’s body during the initial investigation, a police source said.
Now investigators think a train could have dragged the leg along miles and miles of track up to the 167th Street stop in the Bronx, where MTA workers on Saturday were plowing the snow away and uncovered a human leg lying in the subway roadbed, a police source said.
Investigators could not conclusively say that the leg belongs to the man hit by the train, but they expect that DNA testing will confirm that to be the case.
The 4 train service was briefly shut down after the discovery on Saturday but was restored later in the day.
