Police have arrested a mentally ill homeless man they say slashed two strangers on a Queens subway platform within a violent five-minute spree .

Tyquan Manassa, 28, has been charged with multiple counts of assault for the back-to-back slashings on the Manhattan-bound E train platform in the Kew Gardens-Union Turnpike station around 3:15 p.m. Wednesday.

Cops grabbed Manassa after he was arrested for criminal mischief inside a Randall’s Island shelter where he was staying, a police source with knowledge of the case said.

As officers took him into custody, they realized he was wanted for the slashing spree, the source said.

Cops had already released surveillance images of the man wanted for the slashings and were asking the public’s help in tracking him down.

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