A man has caught on fire on top of a commuter train in Greenwich, Connecticut.
According to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 21 year old Brian McClellen of Ohio was found on top of a Metro North commuter train bound for New York City early on Sunday morning, at about 5 a.m. He was on fire. He was discovered as the train had lost power and so it had stopped at Riverside station in Greenwich for crew members to carry out an inspection to ascertain the cause of the problem.
The MTA went on to say that once the crew members saw that McClellen was on fire on top of the train, they immediately doused him with a fire extinguisher and contacted emergency services. McClellen was then taken to Westchester Medical Center, but there is currently no news as to his condition.
Meanwhile, the MTA police are carrying out an investigation as to how and why McClellen was on top of the train, which is powered by overhead electrical cable, and how he caught on fire.
The passengers on the train, around 20 of them, had to disembark and take another train to complete their journeys.
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