Taser Incident Causes Crowd to Panic at Penn Station, Reports Say

Officials Discuss Mass Panic At Penn Station

MIDTOWN A chaotic scene unfolded atPenn Station after Amtrak police used a Taser on someone Friday evening, according to officials and reports.

People may have mistaken the sound for a shooting and ran into the station in a panic, WCBS reported. There were no shots fired, an NYPD spokesman tweeted.

The MTA tweeted that Amtrak police used a Taser while arresting two people for "disobeying orders" at the station.

the station was already crowded after a NJ Transit train got stuck in a tunnel under the Hudson River Friday afternoon.

There was no immediate information on injuries.

Some passersby took to Twitter to show what the station looked like after the incident:

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