NY Post Cover Photo of Man Seconds Before Death-by-Train Sparks Outrage

Critics ask why photographer didn't help man; he says he tried to alert conductor

(Warning: Disturbing image below.)

The New York Post's front page is infamous for crass headlines and arresting images, but Tuesday morning's edition was a shocker: a shot of a man just before he was killed by a subway train.

New York PostThe picture, snapped by freelance photographer R. Umar Abbasi, shows Ki Suk Han, a 58-year-old Queens man, staring at the train seconds before it struck him. He was pushed onto the tracks by a man who remains at large.

The image — headlined "Pushed on the track, this man is about to die" and splashed with the bigger headline "DOOMED" — was roundly denounced by journalists, who took to Twitter to say it went too far.

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