Woman dies after falling into uncovered manhole in New York

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A 56-year-old woman fell into an open maintenance hole on a busy New York street and died, police and utility officials said as they investigated how it could have happened.
The woman parked her Mercedes-Benz SUV right next to the maintenance hole on Monday night near the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 52nd Street in Midtown Manhattan and fell in after exiting the vehicle shortly before 11.30pm, police said.
She was pronounced dead at a local hospital after firefighters pulled her out.
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Woman dies in NYC manhole fall