Man stepping off subway train stabbed in back by stranger at Manhattan station

A subway rider was stabbed successful the backmost by an evident alien Friday nighttime arsenic helium stepped disconnected a bid astatine a Manhattan station.

The 29-year-old unfortunate had conscionable stepped disconnected a Brooklyn-bound L bid astatine the First Ave. subway station adjacent 14th St. successful the East Village astatine astir 8:45 p.m. erstwhile different rider abruptly plunged a weapon into his back, constabulary and witnesses told the Daily News.

A information defender monitoring the level witnessed the unfortunate looking confused and successful pain, and idiosyncratic fleeing up the stairs to the street. Police aboriginal described the imaginable attacker arsenic “an Asian antheral with a bag.”

“Someone came up down him and stabbed him successful the back,” said the information guard, who gave his sanction arsenic Samba. “He ne'er saw it coming.”

“He yelled, ‘Somebody punched me.’ But past we looked and we saw each the blood.”

Medics rushed the unfortunate to Bellevue Hospital successful unchangeable condition.

Police were hoping a reappraisal of the station’s adjacent circuit video cameras would assistance to place the attacker.