Man miraculously survives after being pushed onto train track

A New Yorker experienced every subway commuter’s worst nightmare when he was pushed under an oncoming train – but astonishingly survived.

CCTV footage captured the chilling moment a man in a hoodie abruptly turned around on the platform and shoved a stranger onto the tracks.

The victim was hit by the train that passed above him seconds later, leaving him with head injuries and a broken rib.

In a separate video showing rescuers pulling the man out from between carriages, a woman can be heard exclaiming with relief: ‘He’s alive, he’s alive!’

The 45-year-old was conscious and alert on his way to hospital, NBC reported, and is expected to survive the ordeal.

He had been waiting at 18th Street station in Chelsea, Manhattan, at around 1.30pm on New Year’s Eve when the assault took place.

The New York Post quoted a source from law enforcement saying: ‘By God’s own hand, he fell perfectly in the trench’.

NYPD officers took a 23-year-old man into custody yesterday evening.

According to reports, he has multiple previous arrests for assault, possession of weapons, and harassment.

Police described the subway incident as a random attack, saying the pusher did not know the victim.

It comes less than two weeks after a woman was set on fire and burned to death on another New York City subway car.

Yesterday, the victim was identified as Debrina Kawam, 61, of Toms River, New Jersey.

A 33-year-old man named Sebastian Zepeta, is accused of using a lighter to set her alight before using a shirt to fan the flames.

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