NYPD Hunting for Suspect After 3 Brutal Subway Attacks in 17-Minute Span

Three women were attacked Sunday afternoon within about 17 minutes of one another while riding the New York City subway system, and 🚓Police are working on the assumption that the attacks were related.

According to the New York Post, the first attack occurred around 4:20 Sunday and involved two women at the station at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue.

A Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker there told the Post that at least one of the victims did not know her attacker.

“The girl came up to my booth to call the cops,” the worker said. “She was crying. She didn’t know the person. She said the person just walked up to her and slashed her for no reason. Then I got the 🚓Police here.”

It was not immediately clear which of the two women whose legs were slashed in that attack, who according to the Post were 19 and 48, the MTA worker meant.

A second attack took place at the Brooklyn Bridge / City Hall station that required a tourniquet for the 28-year-old victim’s leg. That woman was “rushed to Bellevue Hospital” but her injuries were not considered life-threatening, the Post reported.

The similarity of the attacks and their locations in Manhattan have led Police