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Samuel Junker, 41, was charged with felony assault in connection to the horrifying Tuesday night attack on Wan Xu, 34 – who told The Post she now fears ever taking the train again, cops said.

onto lower Manhattan subway tracks in a harrowing, unprovoked attack was arrested Thursday, police said.

The mother-of-one, who was heading home after finishing work at a nearby foot massage salon around 11 p.m., recalled being about three feet from the edge of the 1/2/3 platform at the Chambers Street station when she suddenly felt a “great force.” Samuel Junker, 41, was charged with felony assault in connection to the horrifying Tuesday night attack on Wan Xu, 34 – who told The Post she now fears ever taking the train again.Xu, who wasn’t able to stand up, frantically started checking to make sure the train wasn’t coming her way.As her attacker fled, fellow straphangers rushed to her aid and pulled her back onto the platform, law-enforcement sources said.

Xu was heading home after finishing work at a nearby foot massage salon around 11 p.m., and recalled being about three feet from the edge of the 1/2/3 platform at the Chambers Street station when she suddenly felt a “great force.”She was brought to NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital where doctors confirmed a leg fracture, Xu said.

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