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The attack took place Tuesday morning at rush hour in a subway train in the New York district of Brooklyn. The police, who for the moment dismiss the terrorist motive, are actively looking for the author of the shots.
“I heard screams. People were running out of the station screaming, calling for help, saying they had been shot on the subway. There was a bleeding woman, wounded in the leg. Fortunately, the police arrived very quickly,” recounts, still shaken by tremors, Yahya Ibrahim, 44, who works in a shop on 25th Street in Brooklyn. Or a few meters from the subway entrance from which the crowd of victims and witnesses of the shooting that occurred Tuesday morning at rush hour in the New York subway sprung.
At 8:24 a.m., as the Manhattan-bound “N train” stopped at the intersection of Brooklyn’s 36th Street and 4th Avenue, in the heart of the popular, Latin American neighborhood of Sunset Park, a man put on a gas mask, activated two smoke grenades and then opened fire on the people around him, on the platform as well as in the train. The hasty departure of the latter would have made it possible to limit the extent of the drama, according to the authorities, who reported at least 23 people injured, among whom ten were hit by the shots and five would be in a state “critical but stable”.
Disrupted traffic and cloistered students
Hours after the shooting, the suspect was still at large and actively sought after while the crowd of law enforcement officers present (City and State Police, FBI) had suspended all traffic and established a large secure perimeter. around the metro station. The tide of blue flashing lights…