Woman badly injured after fall into train's path

Sophie Yu pictured in December 2016. [Photo from Facebook]

New York -- Sophie Yu's Facebook photos show a happy, vibrant woman who likes to be with friends and travel.

The 25-year-old Manhattan financier is now recovering from a terrible accident on Wednesday when she fainted and fell onto the tracks of an oncoming 6 subway train at 51st Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan.

Although the motorman slammed on his brakes, Yu was run over by the train and ended up losing part of one leg and one arm.

The Chinese immigrant, whose parents were reported to have left from China over the weekend to be with her, was taken to Bellevue Hospital in critical but stable condition.

Yu lost her right leg below the knee and her right arm below the elbow, police sources told the New York Daily News.

Witnesses said the woman regained consciousness and was alert as rescue workers pulled her from beneath the train. Media reports show a photo of her shoes sitting near the edge of the platform.

"Her family is devastated," said a friend who asked not to be identified, the Daily News reported. "There's a lot of stuff they need to figure out right now. ... She's going to have a lot to go through."

"Oh my God, no!" said Derek Mika, the doorman at Yu's Manhattan apartment building, when he learned of the tragedy, the Daily News reported.

According to her Facebook page, Yu is a 2013 magna cum laude and dean's list graduate in finance of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

She previously lived in Birmingham, Alabama; Nashville, Tennessee; Philadelphia; and New Jersey. She posted on her Facebook page that she traveled to Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong province in 2012.