Man suspected of setting sleeping NYC subway rider on fire, watching her burn to death arrested

Authorities have arrested the man they say lit a sleeping woman on fire inside a Coney Island F train on Sunday morning, The Post has learned.

Police sources say a civilian identified the suspected killer as he rode on a train at 34th Street in Manhattan.

Suspect Sebastian Zapeta has been arrested in connection with the deadly attack.

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He is suspected of lighting the woman on fire at about 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, then watching her burn to death in a shocking killing just three days before Christmas.

Cops briefly talked to him, but told him to clear the area in the immediate aftermath of the attack, a video from the scene showed.

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