NEW YORK, June 14: New York police were questioning a man on Wednesday following a series of random and apparently unprovoked stabbings that left four people injured in three different Manhattan locations.

One of the victims, a 21-year-old tourist from Texas, was described as being in a critical but stable condition after he was stabbed several times on Tuesday while riding the subway.

The man being questioned was picked up on Wednesday, shortly after another stabbing attack on two women, aged 22 and 25, outside a large hotel in Times Square.

Both women were hospitalised, but their injuries were not described as life-threatening.

Earlier in the day, a man was lightly injured after being cut by a knife-wielding assailant at a subway station near Rockefeller Centre.

The attacks carried echoes of an infamous case in 1990 when a tourist from Utah, Brian Watkins, was stabbed to death in the subway in the middle of the day. His murder shocked a city that was no great stranger to violent crime.

Police would not confirm whether the three attacks were linked.

“We’re still working on it,” a police spokesman said, adding that the man was primarily being questioned in connection with the stabbings of the two women. —AFP