Police are looking for the suspect who was wearing a construction vest and a gas mask. Photos and videos from the scene showed people tending to bloodied passengers lying on the floor of the station and the air filled with smoke
Emergency personnel gather at the entrance to a subway stop in the Brooklyn borough of New York, 12 April, 2022. (AP)
At least 16 people have been injured during a shooting incident at a subway station in the US’ New York City borough of Brooklyn, on Tuesday, authorities said.
“At 8h27 police responded to a 911 call of a person shot in the subway” in Brooklyn, a New York police spokeswoman told AFP.
Fire personnel responding to reports of smoke at the 36th Street station in the Sunset Park neighborhood found multiple people shot and undetonated devices, a New York City Fire Department told AP.
Photos and videos from the scene showed people tending to bloodied passengers lying on the floor of the station and the air filled with smoke.
Fire and police officials were investigating reports that there had been an explosion, but the police department tweeted that there were “no active explosive devices at this time.”
Multiple smoke devices were found on the scene, mayoral spokesperson Fabien Levy, who confirmed the initial shooting injury count, said.
Suspect still at large
According to multiple law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation, preliminary information indicated a suspect was wearing a construction vest and a gas mask, AP reported. The suspect was still at large, according to Manhattan borough president Mark Levine. “My subway door opened into calamity. It was smoke and blood and people screaming,” eyewitness Sam Carcamo told radio station 1010 WINS, saying he saw a giant billow of smoke pouring out of the N train once the door opened. A bystander video shows people lying on the subway platform amid what appeared to be small puddles of blood, as a loudspeaker announcement told everyone on the smoke-hazy platform to get on a train. Inside a subway car, a person lay on the floor, encircled by others. Outside the station, a police officer yelled, “Let’s go! Get out of the way!”
Meanwhile, the White House said president Joe Biden had been briefed on the incident and was in communication with New York officials.
New York governor Kathy Hochul tweeted that first responders were on the scene and promised regular updates as the investigation unfolds.
Trains servicing that station were delayed during the morning rush hour.
The incident happened on a subway line that runs through south Brooklyn in a neighborhood about a 15-minute train ride to Manhattan. Local schools, including Sunset Park High School across the street, were locked down.
With inputs from agencies
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