10 people shot in Brooklyn subway station

10 people were shot with 5 of them in critical state in the hospital after an incident at a Brooklyn subway station this morning, the FDNY said. There are no active explosive devices at the scene, according to the NYPD. The FDNY reported earlier that “several undetonated devices” were found.

Residents were asked to avoid the area of 36th Street and 4th Avenue in Brooklyn “due to an investigation.”

Witness says there was “just a lot of panic” as smoke engulfed Brooklyn subway car

An eyewitness who said he was in the subway car where the Brooklyn shooting took place described the chaos at the scene, saying he saw a lot of blood on the floor and that gunshots sounded like fireworks.

The subway conductor said the train was delayed due to train traffic minutes before the train got to the 36th Street platform in Sunset Park, according to Yav Montano, and that’s when smoke suddenly engulfed the car.

He then heard “what I thought was fireworks but now hearing that it was gunshots and I’m thankful I hid behind one of the chairs. … I honestly have no words for what I’ve experienced.”

“I was in the front end of the third car and everything happened at the back end of the same car. … As soon as the smoke, like, flared up, it started to engulf everything. People started migrating to the front of the car,” he told CNN.

Authorities found a phone and recovered a handgun at the crime scene, evidence that can be used to trace the assaultant to other crime. Local police are making every effort to find the suspect.