A homeless man is currently recovering from burns to his legs and upper body, claiming that an unidentified individual set him on fire while he was asleep at New York City’s Penn Station, according to police and law enforcement sources.
First responders arrived at the busy train station around 7:50 p.m. on Friday after receiving a call about a person on fire in one of the station’s commuter passageways, as reported by the New York Post.
The victim, a 67-year-old homeless man, suffered burns on both of his legs and his upper body, but he was taken to the hospital in “stable condition,” the outlet reported.
Law enforcement sources informed the Post that the man believes someone set him on fire while he was asleep, though police have not confirmed whether criminal activity was involved in the incident.
There are no surveillance cameras in the area where the man was found, but an investigation is ongoing around New Jersey Transit tracks 1-12.
“This is exactly the way I come to the office every day,” one commuter said to the Post, mentioning that it is not unusual to see homeless individuals resting in the dimly lit passageways of Penn Station.
The attack took place just days after a woman, also sleeping in the subway in Brooklyn, died after being set on fire by an illegal Guatemalan migrant, as reported by Breitbart News.
Journalist Nick Sortor expressed his outrage over the recent attacks on New York’s transit system in an X post: “ANOTHER person set on fire at a train station in just a week in NYC?? This MUST end,” he wrote. “Penn Station is known to be one of the MAJOR hubs for importing illegal migrants into NYC, and is one of the busiest train stations in the region.”

{Matzav.com}