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It could have been the second subway tragedy in a week.

A man tumbled down on the tracks at the Bowling Green station Thursday night, and another man who tried to pull him to safety somehow fell to the tracks, as well.

Both men scrambled to safety as an uptown 5 train rumbled into the station, said witness Margaret Besheer.

“Everyone was panicking,” she said of the heart-stopping incident that unfolded around 9:55 p.m.

“I was standing waiting for the downtown 4 train and all of a sudden I hear gasping,” the Cobble Hill resident said. “I look over and there’s a man just down on the tracks.”

Frantic straphangers began yelling across the platform to “help him, help him.”

“All I kept thinking was Oh My God, not again. Not again. This is twice in one week!”

On Monday, 58-year-old Ki-Suck Han of Queens was killed after he was pushed into the path of an oncoming Q train at the 49th Street station. Naeem Davis, 30, was arraigned Wednesday night with second-degree murder in what apparently started as an altercation on the platform.

The scene at Bowling Green became more chaotic as a 5 train slowly approached the station.

“I could see a light on in the tunnel,” Besheer said. “I glance back and now there are two people on the tracks.”

She surmised that the second man fell or was pulled in trying to help the first man.

With the train bearing down, both men were either pulled to safety or were able to climb from the tracks. 

"it all happened so fast," she said.

“Thank God this had a happy ending."