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NY Teen Dies After Falling Into Sewage Pit

Slips into cesspool while hauling garbage from doughnut shop
By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff
Posted Mar 1, 2010 4:00 AM CST
NY Teen Dies After Falling Into Sewage Pit
Landing Avenue - Smithtown, New York   (©dougtone)

A teenage worker hauling garbage out the back of a New York doughnut shop tumbled into an open sewage pit and died yesterday. Amiri Zeqiri, 17, slipped into the cesspool in Smithtown, some 40 miles east of Manhattan. A cousin spotted him, but by the time he returned with help, the teen was unresponsive and was declared dead a short time later.
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