UK Police Arrest Two After Multiple People Stabbed on Train

Armed police, backed by a fleet of police cars and ambulances, rushed to the station in the rural eastern town of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, after the alarm was raised about the attack and the train stopped there.

“We are currently responding to an incident on a train to Huntingdon in which several people were stabbed,” British Transport Police told X, adding that “two people have been arrested.”

Cambridgeshire police said: “Several people have been taken to hospital.”

Transport police confirmed the train was traveling from Doncaster in the north-east towards London’s King’s Cross Station, a busy route often packed with passengers.

The exact number of people injured or hospitalized is not yet known, but some British media reported around 10 people were injured.

An eyewitness described seeing a man with a large knife and told The Times there was “blood everywhere” as people hid in toilets.

Some passengers were “being branded by others” as they tried to escape, and the witness told The Times they “heard some people shouting (we love you)”.

Eyewitnesses told Sky News they saw a man holding a large knife on the platform after the train stopped. They later saw the man being tasered and restrained by police.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the “horrible” incident was “deeply worrying”.

“My thoughts are with everyone affected and I would like to thank the emergency services for their response,” Starmer told X.

“Everyone in the area should follow police advice,” Starmer added, while home affairs minister Shabana Mahmood confirmed two people had been detained.

– ‘Multiple patients’ –

Armed police arrived at the scene following a report at around 19:40 (1940 GMT).

Late on Saturday, police investigated the train, which was considered a crime scene. An AFP photographer also saw people being carried outside the station in space blankets.

Local ambulance services launched a “large-scale response” to the station, including ambulances, air ambulances and tactical commanders.

“We can confirm that we have transported more than one patient to hospital,” the East of England Ambulance Service said at X.

Train operator London North Eastern Railway (LNER) said rail lines were closed while emergency services dealt with the incident at Huntingdon station.

LNER, which operates trains across the east of England and Scotland, warned of “major disruption” and urged passengers not to travel.

It serves major stops including London, Peterborough, Cambridge, York and Edinburgh.

Paul Bristow, the mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, said in a post on

The identities of the two people arrested are not yet known.

knife crime

Knife crime in England and Wales has been rising steadily since 2011, according to official government data.

Although Britain has some of the strictest gun controls in the world, widespread knife crime has been branded a “national crisis” by Starmer.

The Labor government has tried to curb their use.

Nearly 60,000 knives have been “seized or surrendered” in England and Wales as part of the government’s efforts to halve knife crime within a decade, the home office said on Wednesday.

Those carrying knives in public can face up to four years in prison, and the government said knife murders fell by 18 per cent last year.

Two people were killed and others injured, one by misdirected police fire, in a stabbing attack at a Manchester synagogue in early October in an attack that shook the local Jewish community and the country.

And a man appeared in a London court on Thursday charged with murder following a stabbing attack in broad daylight that left one man dead and two others injured.