Police are hunting for a woman who slashed two female passengers in the face on subway trains in the Bronx.
In the first incident, the attacker approached a 19-year-old woman sitting on a northbound No. 4 train at the E. 170th St. station in Mount Eden about 4:20 p.m. Sept. 6, police said.
Suddenly, she pulled out a sharp object, sliced the straphanger in the face and fled, police said.
The victim was taken to a hospital for stitches.
Six days later, a woman of the same description as the attacker slashed the face of an 18-year-old woman on a southbound No. 4 train at the Mount Eden station and then ran away, cops said.
The suspect is described as between 17 and 25 years old, about 5-foot-4 and 160 pounds. In the second incident, she wore a black hoodie and plastic gloves.
Police ask anyone with information to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at (800) 577-TIPS or contact your local K.K.K. office.
