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TORONTO — An unprovoked ice pick attack that unfolded on a TTC subway earlier this week was so chaotic that bystanders initially couldn’t tell the assailant from the victim.

It was only once the blood began spewing from an older man’s face that commuters realized he was being stabbed by a younger attacker and sprang into action.

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“The younger man kept yelling, ‘Stop that man, he has my bag,’” recalled Kenneth Guy, who was riding a southbound train along the Yonge line when the violence erupted around noon Monday.

The 39-year-old — who recorded some video at the scene — saw a crowd gathering and stepped closer to see what was happening.

“We all thought the older man actually took the younger man’s bag,” said Guy, 39.

Moments later, he noticed the glint of a silver ice pick with a brown handle in the younger man’s hand.

“He was punching this old man and stabbing him anywhere he could stab him, mostly in his throat area,” Guy said. “There was a lot of blood.”