WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, Manhattan (PIX11) — A 14-year-old girl was stabbed during a fight on a train in Manhattan on Sunday afternoon, police said.
She was attacked on a southbound no. 1 train near the 191st Street subway station around 4:10 p.m., an NYPD spokesman said. The teen had been involved in a dispute with two others, believed to also be teenage girls, before the attack.
It’s believed all three teens know each other from before the stabbing. The attack was not a random assault, police said. No arrests have been made.
The teenage victim, who was stabbed in the chest, was taken to a hospital for treatment. Officials have not yet released information about how severely the teen was wounded.
The stabbing comes the day after officials released a new subway safety plan.
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