A suspect is in custody after a knife attack at Grand Central 42 Street subway station in New York injured two with neck and wrist slashes.

Two people were stabbed in New York City’s Grand Central 42nd Street subway station on Christmas Eve in separate attacks. Both victims were taken to hospital and are in stable condition following the attacks in the busy Midtown station,

New York City police arrested and charged a man suspected to have set a woman on fire in the subway early Sunday and then watched from a bench as she became engulfed in flames and died.

A man accused of setting a woman on fire inside a New York City subway train and then watching her die is awaiting arraignment.