Police have defended their response, beginning when officers patrolling the station smelled and saw smoke coming from the F train.

A woman died after she was set on fire while sleeping in a New York City subway car, according to police. A man boarded the F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn, approached the sleeping woman and then lit her on fire early Sunday morning,

Police say a man is facing murder and arson charges in the US after allegedly set a woman on fire inside a New York subway train. The perpetrator allegedly watched his victim die.