Brooklyn subway shooting

The search for the shooter who detonated two smoke bombs and opened fire on a Fresh York City subway vehicle during morning rush hour, wounding 23 people, was intensified by police on Tuesday. The incident spurred new demands to combat an uptick in violence in the city’s transport system. The assailant left the area without being apprehended, according to police.

At least 33 shots were fired on a rush-hour subway train by a shooter wearing a gas mask and a construction vest. Searches were being conducted in an effort to locate the gunman and to locate the renter of a vehicle that may have been linked to the incident.

Ten individuals were shot, including five who were critically injured but otherwise stable, officials said. Frightened commuters abandoned their smoky train in search of safety, injuring at least 13 additional individuals, according to authorities. According to officials, all of the victims were expected to survive their injuries.

New York City subway gunshots stokes fears of an impending terrorist attack.
The nature of the assault on the subway earlier today, including whether it was a terrorist act, is still up in the air. Many New Yorkers have learnt to live with the constant fear of their subways and other public spaces being a terrorist target since September 11, 2001.

There have been a few assaults on the city in the past:

A pipe bomb strapped to a man’s chest exploded at a subway station near the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City in 2017, injuring numerous people.

Vehicle-blocking sidewalk barriers were put up in New York City in response to two assaults on pedestrians in 2013. At least eight people were killed and many more were injured when a man claiming to be an IS supporter drove a truck down an elevated bike path near the Hudson River, according to authorities.

In another, a man suffering from mental illness ploughed his automobile into a crowd of people in Times Square, killing one and injured up to twenty.

An alleged Osama bin Laden sympathiser detonated homemade explosives in New York City and New Jersey in 2016, wounding bystanders before being shot by police and taken into custody.

After failing to detonate a vehicle bomb in Times Square, a man attempted to detonate another car bomb in the same area in 2010.

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