This is the horrifying moment a woman's hair is set alight on a busy subway platform in German by a man feared to be targeting female commuters.

CCTV cameras captured the moment the rail passenger was waiting for a train on the Berlin underground when a man engulfs her in flames.

Her long black hair can be seen ablaze and she then starts to move around the platform in a bid to douse the flames.

The woman was waiting on the platform of an underground station in Berlin when she was targeted

A man was caught on CCTV sneaking up behind the female passenger and setting her hair on fire

Luckily she quickly manages to put out the fire in her hair as she is assited by fellow passengers, who rushed to her aid.

The woman is not thought to have suffered any serious injuries.

Police in Berlin have now released the CCTV footage of the attack in a bid to track down the man who started the fire.

Police say the suspect is a man aged between 18 and 25 years old and could have also been behind a similar incident earlier this year, where another woman's hair was set alight.

Then, a 25-year-old woman told police the man fled while she was extinguishing flames in her hair after an attack at Ostbahnhof train station.

The woman starts running around the platform as the flames take control over her hair and scalp

Luckily she manages to put out the fire herself as other commuters rush to her aid and she was not seriously injured

Police released this image of the man they want to trace in connection with his and a string of other attacks

Heidi Vogt from Berlin Police told the Express: 'We are now searching for a young man. He is thought to be between 18 and 25 years old, thin, have a dark tan and dark hair.

'In this case it was also another woman whose hair was set on fire by this stranger.

'She was able to extinguish it herself. The young man fled as well.'