A New York City subway passenger narrowly escaped serious injuries when a disturbed man allegedly threw a lighted cup of flammable liquid at him on a Manhattan subway on Saturday.
The victim's chest and neck were burned after his shirt caught fire, authorities reported.
It happened on a No. 1 train as it was pulling into the Houston Street station in Manhattan shortly before 3 p.m. The attacker then jumped off the train and fled, but stopped to pick up a phone a woman dropped, the New York Post reported.
Officers were reportedly able to track the phone to locate and arrest the suspect.
The victim was treated for minor injuries at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Hospital.
Police are investigating if the suspect is connected to another subway arson incident.
In February, police say a man threw a container ablaze with a flammable liquid at a group of people in a Manhattan subway station. No one was hurt in that incident.
The NYPD released a video of that attack in hopes of making an arrest. It was not known if the two incidents were connected to the same man.
New York's governor recently announced that she was sending the National Guard into the city's subway system to help control the crime problem.
