MIAMI, U.S. — A woman is fighting for her life at the hospital after she was stabbed “multiple times” and almost thrown over a balcony in an unprovoked attack at Miami International Airport in the United States, late Saturday night.
Just after 11:30 p.m., uniformed officers were called out to the International Arrivals section of Terminal J regarding a stabbing.
Miami-Dade Police stated early Sunday morning that the woman and a man were on the fourth floor when he suddenly “attacked her by stabbing her multiple times and attempted to throw her over the railing.”
The woman was able to escape from the man and ran downstairs to the third floor, where officers found her. Additional responding officers took the man into custody on the fourth floor and recovered the knife.
A video shared with CBS News Miami shows the woman sitting down in the waiting area and bleeding. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded and transported the woman to JMH Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition.
A witness told CBS News Miami that several flights were arriving when the incident happened, and people were either trying to help the woman or ran away when they heard what happened.
“We heard the escalation of a fight,” the witness said. “And somebody said ‘run!’ So, you literally had a line of 100 to 200 people easily because we had just come off the plane.”
Many who were there at the time of the attack were shocked that it happened in such a congested part of the airport.
“There was a lot of people saying how it was really scary telling their kids to pick up their stuff and everyone was running,” another witness told CBS News Miami.
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