New York Police Hunt for Subway Attackers as Third Man Falls Victim

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New York Police Hunt for Subway Attackers as Third Man Falls Victim

An 18-year-old man was stabbed on a subway platform in Lower Manhattan early Sunday morning, the third stabbing in the subway since Friday.

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An 18-year-old man was stabbed on a subway platform in Lower Manhattan early Sunday morning, the third stabbing in the subway since Friday.

He was slashed in a dispute with four men and a woman on the northbound platform of the Bowling Green station for the No. 4 and5 trains, police said.

The victim, whose name was not immediately released, was hospitalized in stable condition.

On Friday night, a 26-year-old man was stabbed in the neck by an attacker inside a No. 7 rain at the Queensboro Plaza station inQueens.

Early that morning, at the Chambers Street stop in Manhattan, another assailant cut a 21-year-old woman repeatedly on her hand, face and scalp with a pen knife.

No arrests have been made in the three cases, but police have released a sketch of the attacker in the Chambers Street case.

Despite an overall drop in subway crime of 1.7 percent last year, assaults in the subways increased more than 13 percent, to 302 from 267, and robberies jumped about 4 percent, to 1,242 from 1,198, police said.

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