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Man is strangled after clothing snags in MBTA escalator

By Mac Daniel
Globe Staff / March 2, 2005

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In what officials called the worst escalator mishap in MBTA history, a 34-year-old man from El Salvador was strangled to death last week after the hood of his sweatshirt became entangled in the teeth at the bottom of the escalator at the Red Line's Porter Square Station. (Full article: 692 words)

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