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NYPD investigating video of three people climbing out of sewer near Penn Station
ABC7 New York and New York Post describe the same event in different terms.
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What happenedVideo posted to social media shows people in overalls and what appears to be headlamps emerge from the manhole, one by one.
The headline splitThe center frames it as "NYPD investigating video of three people climbing out of sewer near Penn Station". The right frames it as "New video shows trio of headlamp-wearing ‘mole people’ emerge from NYC manhole near Penn...".
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CenterNYPD investigating video of three people climbing out of sewer near Penn Station
ABC7 New York · Center · News report
Right / center-rightNew video shows trio of headlamp-wearing ‘mole people’ emerge from NYC manhole near Penn Station
New video shows trio of headlamp-wearing ‘mole people’ emerge from NYC manhole near Penn Station
A video posted on Tik Tok captured three men clad in headlamps and overalls hurriedly pulling themselves out of the steamy depths of a manhole at 32nd Street and Seventh Avenue.
