Toronto police make arrest after woman pushed onto subway tracks at Bloor-Yonge station

Toronto police have made an arrest after a woman was pushed onto the subway tracks at Toronto's Bloor-Yonge station on the weekend. 

The victim, 39, survived by pressing herself against subway platform to avoid being hit by an oncoming train, but she was seriously injured in the fall on Sunday evening.

In a news release, police said they arrested a woman, 45, at Finch GO station on Monday at about 6:20 p.m.

She has been charged with attempted murder and is due to appear at the College Park courts on Tuesday at 10 a.m.

Emergency crews were called to the Bloor-Yonge station shortly after 9 p.m. on Sunday. The victim was rushed to a trauma centre, where she was listed in stable condition on Monday morning.

Const. David Hopkinson, spokesperson for the Toronto Police Service, said the woman suffered "a fairly serious injury" from falling onto the tracks but managed to squeeze into a crawlspace just in time to avoid the train.

"But she had the wherewithal to crawl underneath the platform... just prior to the train arriving into the station," he said. "So she was never struck by the train."

In a statement on Monday morning, a spokesperson for the Toronto Transit Commission said the transit agency is "shocked by this horrific attack."

"Our thoughts are with the victim for a quick and full recovery," Stuart Green said.

"We will, as always, give our full cooperation to Toronto Police as they investigate this troubling incident. We are also supporting our employees who were on the incident train with counselling services."

Police originally said in a tweet that the woman had been hit by a train, but later said that information was incorrect.

Toronto Mayor John Tory called the incident a "shocking attack."

"I am thankful the victim survived and is recovering in hospital," Tory said in a statement Monday. 

"The TTC is safe and must remain safe. And I will be following up on this incident to make sure the TTC and its partners, including the police service, is doing everything possible to protect the safety of riders and transit employees."