A woman died after being found engulfed in flames on an F train in Coney Island Sunday (December 22) morning, the New York Police Department said via the New York Post.
Police received a report of a fire at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station just prior to 7:30 a.m. local time and found the woman sitting on the idled train upon arrival, the department confirmed. Officers extinguished the fire and the woman was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency medical services responders.
The woman was reportedly found surrounded by liquor bottles and had a box of matches, sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed to the New York Post. Witness said they weren't sure whether the woman set herself on fire or if someone else was responsible.
The NYPD said the incident was currently under investigation and the office of the chief medical examiner was scheduled to officially determined the woman's cause of death. No additional details about the woman or the fire that caused her death were revealed publicly at the time of publication on Sunday.
The woman's death occurred one month after a fire knocked out a chunk of F train service to southern Brooklyn for more than two hours. Trains were suspended in both directions just before 1:00 p.m. until just before 3:30 p.m. local time, the Daily News reported.