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VANCOUVER — In an episode that transit officials are calling “extremely unusual,” a pair of teenage girls stepped onto Vancouver’s SkyTrain Monday night and proceeded to randomly stab commuters with a steak knife.

The accused girls, a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old from Surrey, B.C., are currently in police custody. “They’re both very well known to police,” said Transit Police spokeswoman Anne Drennan.

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The incidents began shortly before 11:30 p.m. in Surrey, when the girls followed two young women into a SkyTrain station and slashed one of them on the forearm.

The accused then boarded a northbound train, threatened a woman with an eight-inch steak knife and then punched her in the face as she disembarked.

As the train crossed the border into Vancouver, the girls then attacked a man who was holding a pizza box. Flipping up the box to defend himself, he escaped with only a cut on his finger.

“Had he not had the pizza box, things might have been quite different for him,” said Ms. Drennan.

Transit Police caught the girls as they ran away from a Vancouver SkyTrain station. As the suspects did not know demand anything from their victims, investigators are in the dark as to the girls’ motives.