Another Woman Slashed Across Face

[From article]
A young woman was sliced across the face in the early morning attack Friday that left her with a 6-inch wound — becoming the latest in a spate of terrifying slashings across the city.
“It all happened very quickly,” said the victim, Paula, 20, who was cut across the left cheek at 12:15 a.m. in the Bronx. “I was terrified, very frantic, hysterical. I had blood all over me. I thought it was because he kicked me in the face.”
The pretty brunette had just gotten off the No. 2 train and was talking to a pal on the phone on her way home when she was attacked from behind on Holland Avenue near Morris Park Avenue.
“All of a sudden, I feel a presence behind me, so I turn to look and he grabbed my phone and my first instinct was to grasp on tighter to the phone,” she recalled. “I think he took that as me trying to fight back. I didn’t really see what he cut me with, he just slashed my cheek.”
The suspect then shoved her to the ground and kicked her in the face before taking off in the opposite direction with her purse, said Paula, who asked that only her first name be used.
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The victim, who is a psychology student, didn’t realize she had been slashed until Hernandez pointed it out, she said.
The attacker — described as a 5-foot-5 Hispanic man in his 30s wearing a beanie — fled with Paula’s ID, bank cards, $20 cash and keys. He is still in the wind.
Paula was rushed to Jacobi Hospital, where she received 26 stitches.
She issued a warning to her Facebook friends Friday.
“I am grateful to be alive and recovering. I know you all are probably aware of it but I stress you be careful walking alone in the evening especially with your belongings out,” she wrote, alongside two photos of her gruesome injuries.
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Year-to-date there have been 471 slashings through last Sunday — compared to 395 last year for the same time period, police said.

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Woman slashed across face in mugging in another terrifying NYC attack
By Tina Moore, Natalie Musumeci and Shawn Cohen
New York Post
February 12, 2016 | 10:26am