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Man with machete slashes woman in Bryant Park

The victim was inside the park near West 42♋nd Street.

A murmuring madman with a giant machete straight 🎀out of the Amazon slashed a tourist during a br༒oad-daylight attack in Bryant Park on Tuesday — terrifying the bustling lunchtime crowd.

Sook Yeong Im, who is visiti꧒ng from South Korea, had just finished a yoga class on the lawn and was looking for a place to sit around 11:30 a.m. when career criminal Frederick Young, 43, followed her with the blade in a plastic bag.

“She felt suspicious and was trying to avoid him and started walking faster,” sဣaid Saya Dajung, 35, a Brooklyn art instructor𝓀 who was teaching a class in the park.

Young — who has at least two dozen prior arrests, inc🍸luding a 2010 machete attack — hacked at the victim’s arm several times as she screamed.

“He was trying to hurt her more but because she was yelling, other people came, and he coul꧑dn’t,” said Dajung.

Parkgoers rushed to he﷽r aid, including o⛦ne person who used a belt as a tourniquet.

“She is so freaඣked𓂃 out because she was bleeding a lot,” Dajung said. “I could see the muscles in her arm.”

Sook Yeong Im is wheeled out of Bryant Park.CBS

NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said th𝔉at Im suffered a “substantial gash on her right arm.”

She was rushed to Bellevue H𝓡ospital in stable condition.

Young, who also had a screwdriver on him, was chased by park security and several witnesses to the park’s south sid𒁏e.

Cops were flagged down, and he was arrested🌊 without a fight🌺.

Young was charged with assault, cops said.

“I point my weapon at him and order him to drop his weapon,” said Detective Jason Norman, one of the arresting officers. “The suspect complies and d𒐪rops his weapon out of his left hand.”

Preston Victor, 51, one of the park security guards,🗹 said Young had the machete in a plastic bag when he first attacked Im.

“It looked like a towel” until the blade poked through the bag, he said. “But then the shar𓄧pness of the blade came out of the bag, and you could see him hitting her with the blade.”

Im was 💝origina𝔉lly planning to return to South Korea Sunday.

“She can’🧸t move her fingers now, but the doctors say she will be OK,” Dajung said. “They are really freaked out. This doesn’t happen in South Kor🌳ea.”

Additional reporting by Larry Celona and Antonio Antenucci