A subway rider was stabbed in the back by an apparent stranger Friday night as he got off a train at a Manhattan station.
The 29-year-old victim had just stepped off an L train bound for Brooklyn at subway station First Ave near 14th St. in the East Village at about 8:45 p.m. when another passenger suddenly threw a knife into his back, police and witnesses told the Daily News.
A security guard monitoring the platform saw the victim looking confused and in pain and someone fleeing up the stairs to the street. Police later described the possible assailant as “an Asian man with a bag.”
“Someone came up behind him and stabbed him in the back,” said the security guard, who gave his name as Samba. “He never saw it coming.”
“He screamed, ‘Someone hit me.’ But then we looked and we saw all the blood.”
Medics rushed the victim to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.
Police hoped a review of the station’s video cameras would help identify the attacker.