Video shows the moment police officers burst onto a train to arrest a migrant accused of setting a subway driver on fire

One of the officers then puts his arm around the suspect and forces him to the ground as other officers rush to help him.

About five police officers can be seen restraining the Guatemalan native and handcuffing him as his face is pressed against the subway’s plastic seat.

Worried and confused straphangers watch and back away as police officers tell them to “get off the train.”

Riders can be seen struggling to escape the chaos in the already crowded subway car before the video ends.

According to Tisch and Joseph Gulotta, the NYPD’s public transportation chief, three high school students called police and said they had seen the man at the Jay and York Street station on the F Line.

Police officers were called ahead, stopped the train in Herald Square and moved from car to car until they found and arrested the suspect.

“Our officers in the Second District stopped this train in Herald Square and were able to keep the doors closed, pass the train and take this very dangerous individual into custody,” Gulotta said.

The suspect had a lighter in his pocket when he was arrested, said NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.

The 33-year-old suspect – whose name has not been released pending arraignment – is accused of setting fire to a sleeping subway driver on a stationary F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn around 7:30 a.m. Sunday to have Am

“As the train pulled into the station, the suspect calmly walked towards the victim who was sitting at the end of a subway car… and used, we suspect, a lighter to set fire to the victim’s clothing, which burned completely. “Devoured within seconds,” Tisch said.

A chilling video obtained by The Post showed the suspect calmly watching as flames consumed the yet-unidentified woman standing in the open door of the subway car.

Patrol officers eventually reached the smoldering victim and extinguished the fire. The victim died at the scene.

“Unbeknownst to the officers who responded, the suspect remained at the scene, sitting on a bench on the platform directly in front of the train car,” Tisch said.

“The responding officers’ body-worn cameras provided a very clear and detailed view of the killer.”

At around 1 p.m., officers carried a body bag containing the woman’s body off the train and placed it on a stretcher to a medical examination car.

The woman has not yet been identified.

Officials said the suspected killer came to the U.S. from Guatemala in 2018. Sources said Border Patrol agents arrested him in Arizona in June of that year.

His legal status was not immediately clear.