New York police deploy on subway trains after a wave of stabbing incidents

Washington-SANA

New York City police deployed hundreds of their personnel to the metro network yesterday after a series of stabbing incidents targeting homeless people, killing two people.

Reuters quoted Police Commissioner Dermot Shea as saying that the city police department deployed 500 additional policemen to the tunnel network after a series of attacks with white weapons, the first of which was last Friday morning when a masked man attacked a 67-year-old at a station in Upper Manhattan and stabbed him and necessitated his transfer to hospital.

On the evening of the same day, the police found the body of a person who had been stabbed to death on a train, and two hours later, a 44-year-old woman was found unconscious and injured in another train. Doctors declared her death later in the hospital, and a 43-year-old man was stabbed in the early hours of the morning. Yesterday at a train station.

The investigation officers said that the attacks occurred on a single train line or the stations that pass through it without any provocation, adding .. They are investigating whether there was one person behind them.