A man tossed a Molotov cocktail into a Lower East Side beauty salon on Sunday, injuring two people who were inside, police and sources said.
The frightening scene unfolded just before 5 p.m. at the Sa Sa II Beauty Salon, located at 129 Eldridge Street when the suspect was spotted by witnesses tossing the incendiary device into the business, according to police sources.
The salon’s front door was locked at the time of the arson and those trapped inside were pounding on the door in a desperate bid to flee.A 60-year-old woman suffered burns to her chest and a 46-year-old man suffered burns to his chest and arms.“The whole store was filled with black smoke and we didn’t even realize that there was a fire or anything, but there was somebody pounding to get out and the door was locked,” Nick Gerrard, 30, who was having a drink next door, told The Post.
Gerrard, of Brooklyn, tried to break the glass door with a stool, before he and another witness were finally able to pry it open a crack for the man stuck inside to escape.He said the man whose “clothes were fully burned off” ran out of the building, followed by one or two people who were also inside. Then the flames grew.
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