Goon sets sleeping man on fire inside Penn Station as ghoulish pals look on: cops

A pyromaniac goon set a sleeping homeless man on fire inside Penn Station while his ghoulish pals watched the carnage on Monday, cops and sources said.The firebug torched the 37-year-old victim’s clothes as he was sprawled out in the Amtrak Rotunda of transit hub on West 31st Street near Seventh Avenue around 8:40 p.m., police said.First responders quickly extinguished the blaze, and the victim was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, cops said. By then, the punks had already fled the scene, and no arrests had been made by Tuesday. One of the suspects was last seen wearing a black jacket and blue jeans, the second was spotted in a brown jacket with gray pants and the third was seen carrying a backpack, police said. The attack comes about three months after an 18-year-old firebug allegedly set a sleeping 56-year-old homeless man on fire on board a No.3 train passing through 34th Street-Penn Station in December, police said.The attack left the victim so badly scorched that cops found skin on one of the seats on the train, sources said at the time....

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