A man was found with burns on his body at Penn Station in New York on Friday evening and was transported to a hospital, where he was in stable condition, fire and police officials said.
Fire officials responded to a report at about 8 p.m. that a man who was at the train station in Manhattan had sustained burns, the New York Fire Department said in a statement.
A 67-year-old man was transported to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, the New York Police Department said in a statement. It was not clear if the authorities knew the man’s identity. The department had earlier said the man was 56.
A fire department spokesman said in a phone interview on Friday night that the burns were serious but not life-threatening when the man was being transported. A police spokesman said that the man was in stable condition at the hospital on Friday night.
It was not immediately clear what caused the fire and whether there was any criminality behind it.
At Penn Station, the police blocked a hallway near the entrance to tracks 11 and 12 with yellow caution tape. Officers with the New York State Police, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department and the New York Fire Department were at the scene.
The police said they were reviewing footage from security cameras and trying to identify any witnesses.
Train service in New York appeared to be normal after the emergency response.
The episode, at one of New York’s busiest train hubs, came days after the fatal burning of a woman, who was set on fire at another subway station in the city on Sunday. Videos of the apparently random attack inside a stopped train on Coney Island shocked the city.
The woman, who has not been identified, appeared to have been homeless and sleeping on the train before the attack. The authorities charged a man, an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala who was seen watching her burn, with first-degree murder and arson.
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