A Bronx woman was suffocated by her belt and dragged down the street by a rapist. She reports being “shocked” by the attack

The victim of a horrifying videotaped strangulation and rape on a Bronx street recounted chilling details of the May 1 ambush and said the fiend who attacked her was a stranger.

“What happened that night, I was walking and he saw me and grabbed me by the neck with a belt. He pulled me,” the woman told the Daily News on Friday. “And he dragged me.”

Horrifying images released by police this week show the woman’s masked rapist on E. 152nd St. near Courtlandt Ave. in Melrose around 3 a.m., then throws a noose belt around the victim’s throat and pulls her to the ground before pulling her up between two parked cars.

The woman’s hands clutched her neck, trying to free herself.

“He said nothing. I didn’t see him coming behind me. “I didn’t notice him,” said the woman, sitting on a building ledge next to a cart with her belongings, a hat partially covering a purple bruise on her left eye.

She said she was on her way to a friend’s house when she was attacked, and when she felt the belt around her neck, her mind went blank.

“I couldn’t hear, I couldn’t speak or say anything. The shock.”

After the attack, the woman took herself to Lincoln Hospital, where she was treated and released.

Police released additional photos of the suspect on Friday that showed his face after searching the area for more surveillance footage. Police have recovered images of the man showing him without the white towel covering his face during the nighttime attack.

The victim said she did not know the man who attacked her.

“The police showed me pictures. I didn’t recognize him.”

Other women in the area were aware of the attack, some had seen photos of it, and were shaken, they said Friday.

“It’s terrible. It’s disgusting,” said a 57-year-old woman who did not give her name. “I saw it. I saw what he did. He tied her up like an animal. Like a horse, like in a rodeo,” she said, shaking her head.

Another said that while she felt safe enough to go for a walk in the area, she avoided doing so late at night.

“I found it disturbing. It was very disturbing. Because who would do something like that? He also has a mother. He has grandmothers,” said Sharon Hendison, 60, who lives in a nearby women’s shelter.

A woman who gave her name as Carmen, 57, said the attacker was “not afraid.”

“We have to be careful, you don’t know who is behind you.”