A man has had both his legs cut off after drunkenly falling in front of a New York Subway train last night.
The unidentified man, said to be in his 40s, was waiting for a train in the Bronx, when he fell off the platform into the path of an incoming train, the Gothamist reports.
Before he could pull himself to safety, the D-train came into the 161 Street-Yankee Stadium subway stop crushing and severing both of his legs.
It is the 6th time in five days that someone has been hit by a train in the city.
A MTA worker told the New York Post: 'He was drunk, he was intoxicated.'
The fire department rushed officers to the scene who pulled the man from the tracks into a waiting ambulance .
He is currently being treated in Lincoln Hospital and was said to be lucky to escape with his life.
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