ANOTHER STABBING: Boy, 16, wounded on TTC bus in city’s west end

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Yet another stabbing — this one involving a 16-year-old boy — has taken place on TTC property.

Toronto Police responded on Wednesday around 3:59 p.m. to Bloor St. W. and Old Mill Trail for reports of someone stabbed on a TTC bus.

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Police said a 16-year-old boy was the victim.

Toronto paramedics say the teen was transported to a trauma centre with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

The suspect is described as in their 20s, with a medium build, wearing a blue mask and black jacket with the hood up.

Police say the suspect was last seen running on Bloor St.

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Our thoughts are with the victim in this attack,” the TTC said in a tweet. “As always, we’ll give police our full support as they investigate, including video and witness statements. The TTC has no further information at this time.”

It’s the latest in a series of unsettling attacks to happen on public transit over the past week and beyond.

Earlier Wednesday, one person was taken in custody after two TTC employees were chased by a person wielding a syringe at a downtown subway station.

Four 13-year-old boys were arrested earlier this week after two TTC employees were assaulted during what was described as a swarming incident on a bus Monday afternoon in the Kennedy-Merrian Rds. area.

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On Tuesday afternoon, a woman in her 20s stabbed around 2 p.m. on a streetcar at Spadina Ave., just south of Bloor St.

A BB gun was fired at a TTC bus operator near Markham Rd. and Progress Ave. in an incident Mayor John Tory described at the time as “shameful.”

“This can’t continue,” Marvin Alfred, president of ATU Local 113, told the Toronto Sun in an interview on Tuesday. “This needs to be addressed immediately.”