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A mugger bludgeoned a 57-year-old woman with a hammer inside a Queens subway station Thursday night – fracturing her skull and leaving her in critical condition, disturbing video shows.
The victim was walking down the stairs into the Queens Plaza E, M and R station around 11:20 p.m. when the male suspect came up behind her and kicked her in the back, attempting to knock her down the stairs, according to cops and the footage.
The woman appeared to stumble but continued to make her way down the stairs.
The attacker then pulled out a hammer and struck the woman several times on the head.
He also tries to grab her bag before dealing a final set of brutal blows, according to the footage.
He then snatches the pocketbook and ran back up the stairs, the clip shows. He fled south on Queens Plaza South, cops said.
The victim was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center in critical condition, with a fractured skull and lacerations to her head.
In a separate attack hours earlier, a 35-year-old man was leaving the Franklin Avenue 2, 3, and 4 station in Crown Heights around 7 p.m. when a man slashed him with an unknown object on the stairs, cops said.
This incident also appeared unprovoked, cops said.
The assailant fled the scene, and the victim was taken to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in stable condition, cops said.
Meanwhile, around the same time on the Upper West Side, an attacker slugged a 33-year-old female conductor in the face unprovoked as she stuck her head out the window of an arriving No. 1 train at the 86th Street station, police said.
The male attacker fled the scene, and the conductor was treated and released at Mount Sinai Morningside, cops said.
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