An Italian tourist was slashed in the hand by a woman he didn’t know in Midtown Manhattan Saturday morning, cops said.

An Italian tourist who was slashed with a kitchen knife in Midtown Manhattan said he thought he was punched -- and said the NYPD stepped up to help.

An Italian tourist who was slashed by a crazed woman in an unprovoked Midtown attack said he initially thought she had punched him — until he saw the blood. Paolo Rech, an assistant professor of engineering at Universita di Trento,