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A straphanger was slashed on his head in an unprovoked attack at a Manhattan subway station Tuesday, cops said, continuing a frightening trend of violence on trains in the Big Apple.
The incident happened on the 4/5 subway line at Lexington Avenue and 59th Street around 1:30 p.m.
The victim, who is in his 40s, told cops he was riding on a subway train when two men and a woman attacked him and one of them cut his head with a knife, cops said.
Police were searching for the two men, who were shirtless, and the woman after they fled on a northbound 5 train, police sources said.
The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. It wasn’t clear which line he had been riding, cops said.
The slashing comes a week after two UPS workers were cut during a fight on a downtown N train at the same station. The duo managed to grab their attacker and hold him down until cops arrived.
Finn Barbuto, 22, was arrested in the attack.
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