"Just seeing her lying on the ground and she was kind of hyperventilating and in a lot of pain. You could tell she was in really bad shape. All the medics were down there and there was a big turnout as far as responders and so forth."
"I just saw a lady that was laying on the ground, and they were trying to give her CPR, the witness said, adding: And she looked like she was in an awful lot of pain."
Around 9:25pm on Monday a 26-year-old woman riding the CTA Blue Line near Clark/Lake got into an argument with an approximately 45-year-old man. The argument escalated physically; the man poured an unknown fluid over the woman's body and ignited it. The train stopped and the suspect fled. Bystanders and responders extinguished the flames before police arrived. The woman stumbled off the train, fell, and was transported to Stroger Hospital with severe burns; she remains in critical condition. Trains returned to service about 1:30am. The suspect remains at large and an investigation is ongoing. A similar fatal subway arson occurred in New York late last year.
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