A man is in critical condition in hospital after being stabbed at the St. George metro station late Tuesday night, police said.
The 30-year-old victim was in St. George, which connects lines 1 and 2 on the subway, at 11:29 pm on Tuesday, talking to someone from the platform.
Another man approached him and stabbed him in the neck.
Paramedics in Toronto said he was rushed to a hospital for serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Investigators say the attack was completely unprovoked.
Police said the suspect was a 20-year-old white man with short blond hair, a goatee and a neck tattoo.
He was last seen wearing a white bandana, a blue shirt and black trousers.
He fled the scene via Bedford Road.
Due to the accident, the trains did not stop at the station for about an hour.
This is the second violent incident to occur on a Toronto subway platform in the last four days.
On Sunday, a woman pushed another woman off the platform of Bloor-Yonge station and onto the rails.
The woman survived only by squatting in the crawling space under the platform to avoid being crushed by a passing train.
A 45-year-old Toronto woman has been charged with attempted murder in the incident.
TTC spokesman Stuart Green told CP24 that the network is still safer than any other major urban transport system and has a number of security measures, including CCTV cameras, special police officers and designated waiting areas on each platform.
“TTC is safe in all global measurements. We relocate hundreds of millions of customers every year without incident, but we never take that for granted, so we’re constantly looking for ways to make the system even safer. “
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