Three elderly victims were wounded at the transit hub, and the alleged attacker is in critical condition, police said.<\/p>\n
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A man wielding a machete was shot by police in New York City\u2019s Grand Central station, after allegedly wounding three elderly individuals, according to the local police department.<\/p>\n
Police responded to a call about a man with a knife at the iconic transit hub at 9:40am United States Eastern time (13:40 GMT) on Saturday.<\/p>\n
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One police officer opened fire, striking the man, who was taken to a local hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n
Three individuals \u2014 an 84-year-old man, a 70-year-old woman and a 65-year-old man \u2014 were wounded before police arrived at the scene, according to a New York Police Department (NYPD) spokesperson.<\/p>\n
All three victims were hospitalised in stable condition. Further details of the incident were not immediately available.<\/p>\n
Grand Central station is one of the most iconic transit hubs in the United States.<\/p>\n
Located in Midtown, Manhattan, it is a nexus of several New York City subway lines, as well as the regional Metro-North Railroad system.<\/p>\n
Known for its Beaux-Arts architecture, the terminal is also one of the most visited tourist attractions in the world, with an average of 750,000 travellers and visitors a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three elderly victims were wounded at the transit hub, and the alleged attacker is in critical condition, police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,9,12,56,63,65,64,104,901,2272],"class_list":{"0":"post-193462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-police","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-us-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}