New York: four subway knife attacks left two dead and two injured

NEW YORK.- Between the early hours of Friday and Saturday New York subway, United States, registered four knife attacks, which left at least two dead, And now the local authorities are looking for a man like I only suspect assaults.

When providing information at a press conference, police said the dead and injured, also two, are homeless.

It was from the data provided by the security cameras that the authorities identified a man, who allegedly played in all the attacks of the metro line A.

The series of attacks began when one of the victims was found dead on a train in Queens around midnight on Friday, with several stab wounds in the neck and chest. Two hours later, a 44-year-old woman was found under one of the seats, stabbed to death in the north Manhattan.

In addition, the two non-fatal attacks, which affected a 67-year-old man and a 43-year-old man, also took place in the north of the island. One of them was sleeping on a ladder when he woke up with severe pain in his back and there he realized he had been injured, according to what was published by the New York Times.

In reaction to what happened, Police say they have deployed an additional 500 officers on the city network as a precautionary measure.

“To the victims, to the families of the victims: we are 100% committed to justice … to a resolution to this terrible incident,” said Police Commissioner Dermot Shea.

While the agents already they arrested a man in connection with the case, there is no precise information on the fact that it is about the aggressor. According to the channel CBS, he is “a person of interest” and is asked about the facts.

Attacks in the last few hours reminded the city of the events of October 2019, when four homeless people were beaten to death while sleeping on the streets in Chinese district. Randy Rodríguez Santos, a homeless man with a mental illness, has been charged with the murders.

And despite the fact that due to the coronavirus pandemic in the city, one of the most affected by the epidemic in the country, the metro service was limited in terms of passengers who could use it, Violent crime will increase in 2020 compared to 2019: statistics show that more assaults, homicides and robberies have been reported.

AP and DPA agencies

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