Two men were slashed in the face on a Queens subway platform on Wednesday afternoon \u2014 and their attacker remains on the lam, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
Police received a 911 call at 3:20 p.m. that two men were slashed on the southbound platform of the E and F train at the Union Turnpike subway station in Kew Gardens, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived, they discovered a 42-year-old man with a laceration to his forehead and a 50-year-old man with a laceration to his face, cops said. <\/p>\n
Two men were slashed in the face on the southbound platform of the E and F train at the Union Turnpike subway station on Wednesday afternoon<\/p>\n
The two men appeared stunned and were seen holding tissues to their bleeding wounds, as concerned straphangers surrounded them on the bustling platform. <\/p>\n
One woman was seen graciously holding pressure to the straphanger\u2019s forehead as he made a phone call.<\/p>\n
One woman was seen graciously holding pressure to the straphanger\u2019s forehead as he made a phone call. Juan Arellano<\/p>\n
The victims were taken to local hospitals and listed in stable condition. Juan Arellano<\/p>\n
The victims were transported to local hospitals in stable condition, police added.<\/p>\n
The events leading up to the slashing are not immediately clear. <\/p>\n
No arrests have been made, police said.<\/p>\n
The incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men were slashed in the face on a Queens subway platform on Wednesday afternoon \u2014 and their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[357,5019,57,9,56,63,65,64,122,361,362,1687,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-45607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-assaults","9":"tag-kew-gardens","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-queens","17":"tag-slashings","18":"tag-subway-slashings","19":"tag-subways","20":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45607","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=45607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}