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- A woman was hospitalized after being attacked Monday morning on a southbound A train in Brooklyn, police said.
- Police made an update that the incident was an assault and not a stabbing as they previously thought and reported.
- Monday morning's attack comes after another violent scenario on the subway Sunday night, when a stabbing took place in Canarsie at the East 105th St subway station involving a teen.
A woman was hospitalized after being attacked Monday morning on a southbound A train in Brooklyn, police said.
The incident took place at around 4:16 a.m. at the Franklin Ave station in Bed-Stuy. The woman was taken to Kings County with non life-threatening injuries.
Police are looking for four female teens who took off from that station. The investigation is ongoing.
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Police made an update that the incident was an assault and not a stabbing as they previously thought and reported.
Police initially said the incident was a stabbing that occurred just before 4 a.m. as the train was approaching the Franklin Ave station in Bed-Stuy, and that the woman was stabbed once in the shoulder and once in the head, and that she was taken to an area hospital in stable condition.
Monday morning's attack comes after another violent scenario on the subway Sunday night, when a stabbing took place in Canarsie at the East 105th St subway station.
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Police say that in this separate incident someone stabbed a teen in the hip and took off with his cell phone. The teen is expected to survive.
Additional information was not immediately available.
