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Subway Rider Sliced in Power Saw Attack
By Associated Press
1 hour agoUPDATED 1 HOUR 12 MINUTES AGO

NEW YORK - A man grabbed two cordless power saws off a subway station
workbench and went on a rampage Thursday, swinging the saws at riders and
slicing open a man's chest before running away, police said.

The 64-year-old victim, whose name was not released, was hospitalized in
critical but stable condition. Police were searching for the suspect,
described by witnesses as a thin man in his 30s, who had earrings in both
ears and was possibly carrying a teddy bear.

The attack occurred before dawn at a subway station a few blocks south of
Columbia University.

Wielding a saw in each hand, the man took a swipe at one rider on a platform
and missed, police said. Moments later, he cut into the man's chest at a
turnstile before bolting out of the station, still carrying the power tools,
which were later found in a trash can.

Police were reviewing security camera videotape.

The attack came two weeks after a Boston man was charged with stabbing four
people _ three of them tourists _ over a 13-hour period in the subway and
the theater district in Manhattan.


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