Two tourists from Italy were robbed on a Metro train in Los Angeles on Monday night, according to a witness.
Preliminary information indicates that the robbery occurred near the Expo/Vermont station on the Metro E line around 11 p.m.
A witness who only spoke Spanish told stringer service KNN that two suspects stole the pair’s phones and attempted to assault them.
“We were sitting on the Metro and there were two Italian tourists…two people took their cell phones and tried to hit them,” the witness said. “It was a very worrying situation for everyone on the train.”
The Los Angeles Police Department later confirmed that the robbery occurred and that the victims were tourists; however, they did not say exactly what was taken or where they were from.
The tourists were not injured, police added. The suspects were described as two Black men.
Alberto Mendez contributed to this report.