SAN FRANCISCO — BART service resumed Sunday evening after a fatal stabbing incident closed the 24th Street Mission station for more than four hours, authorities said.

According to a statement by BART Police Chief Ed Alvarez, officers responded to the station for a report of a possible stabbing around 1:40 p.m.

A review of surveillance camera footage showed two men arguing near an elevator around that time before one man stabs the other. The man who was stabbed managed to walk down the stairs into the station before collapsing on the platform, Alvarez said.

BART staff responded to the victim with life-saving measures, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene. His identity was not immediately available Sunday evening from the San Francisco coroner’s office, pending next-of-kin notification.

Alvarez said BART police were working with San Francisco police investigators to gather more information and detain the stabbing suspect, who fled the scene.

MUNI provided mutual-aid service between BART’s 16th Street Mission, 24th Street Mission and Glen Park stations using its Nos. 14, 15R and 49 buses.

The station closed to riders until it was reopened shortly after 6 p.m., BART spokesman James Allison said.

The stabbing happened a week after a person entering San Francisco’s Embarcadero BART station trackway delayed Transbay Tube train traffic for more than two hours and two days after an injury shooting midday Friday aboard a Daly City-bound train that had just pulled into Oakland’s Lake Merritt station. The victim, a 21-year-old man, was later hospitalized.

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Contact George Kelly at 408-859-5180.

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