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Woman throw on tracks in brutal subway assault
- Published_at:2013-01-18
- Category:News & Politics
- Channel:LifeisFootball6
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- description: Shocking video shows woman dragged by her ankles across a Philadelphia subway platform and thrown onto the tracks in afternoon attack by man who wanted a 'light' A woman was viciously beaten and thrown onto the tracks of the Philadelphia subway in a shocking random attack in broad daylight on Tuesday. Surveillance video of the incident at the Chinatown station shows the man in a hooded jacket suddenly pouncing on his 23-year-old female victim sitting alone on the station platform, CBSNews reports. The attacker, whose face is also partially covered, approaches the woman asking for a light. But when she hands over the lighter he moves in closer repeatedly punching her in the head and grabbing her ankles. He then forcefully pulls the woman off the platform bench, dragging her by her feet across the platform before throwing her onto the tracks. He is the caught on camera looking back at the woman as he picks up her discarded mobile phone off the seat and coolly walks away. The woman could have been electrocuted or killed by an oncoming train in the attack that took place at 2.30pm, but she luckily manages to pull herself off the tracks without injury before a train arrives at the station. The victim, who asked to remain anonymous, told CBSNews: 'By the time I zipped my jacket back up, that's when he was on me, on my neck. I was just telling him, 'I don't have no money,' and he was just like, 'Shut up.' " 'I started trying to fight him back, and kick just as much as I could. And he grabbed me by the legs. He seemed fine, he didn't seem like he was crazy. 'I am so happy that a train didn't come on either side, because I don't know what would have happened then.' Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority Police Chief, Thomas Nestel, told NBCNews: 'It's horrifying. When you see that happen, you think the worst. We all know that there is a tremendous electric source. You touch that, you die.' Homeless William Clark was arrested in connection to the incident yesterday.
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