Gun-scare stampede on subway

L-train rider panic

A false report of a man with a gun caused chaos at a busy Brooklyn subway station Saturday afternoon as terrified staphangers lost their minds — and their shoes — when they scrambled for their lives, police said.

Reports of gunfire at the Bedford Avenue L station in Williamsburg were made at around 1:20 p.m., according to police. But when cops arrived, they found no evidence of shots having been fired — or a gun.

“I was standing and all of a sudden, the entire opposite side of the train stampeded toward my end, yelling that someone had a gun,” rider Tamara Kraus told The Post. “Luckily we were maybe only a minute away from the Bedford stop, so once we stopped everyone was just yelling and panicking to open the doors.

“The train doors opened and it was like a herd of animals rushing out,” Kraus added. “But people, myself included, were falling re- peatedly and there were sunglasses and bags and things all on the ground. As [soon] as I saw the light outside, I was crying and so was everyone else.”

Tatiana Smith, 22, said she had just walked onto the train platform when suddenly people started screaming, “Run! Run! Someone has a gun! Run!”

“People dropped their boxes, their bags,” Smith recalled. “I also got stepped on and lost my shoe.”

Smith tweeted a photo of several other missing shoes that piled up at the station during the mass exit.

“When I started to run, my biggest fear was of being trampled,” she said.

Straphanger Scott Allan described the scene on Twitter as “a stampede of sheer panic.”

“Seemed a lot of people thought it was some type of terror attack,” he wrote. “Crazy bottleneck at stairs but #nypd there quick.”

The MTA tweeted that Broadway Junction-bound L trains were running with delays.