Most of the papers are covering the aftermath of the stabbing attack on a train from Doncaster to London on Saturday night. According to Sun, the man with the knife told the police to “kill me” after getting off the train where he stabbed 11 people. Passengers told the newspaper he stabbed “everyone he could” during the attack before being tasered by police officers.
According to the Daily Mail, the attacker told a passenger that “the devil will not win” during the attack.
A passenger on the train told the Daily Star he was rescued by the knife-wielding man during the “bloodbath”. The newspaper is one of many others to report that the suspect shouted “the devil will not win.”
The headline of the Daily Mirror newspaper, which reported on a passenger being rescued by an attacker, was “Terror on the rails”. He stood over 48-year-old Dayna Arnold with a knife in his hand, but continued on his way after Dayna said “Please don’t kill me.”
Passengers initially thought the attack was a Halloween prank, the Daily Telegraph reported; Eyewitnesses also said the scene was “like something out of a movie.” The 32-year-old British citizen is in custody on suspicion of attempted murder.
The Guardian reported that a “heroic” railway worker who intervened in the attack to protect passengers was “fighting for his life”. Witnesses told the newspaper of a “horrific” 14 minutes in which “bloody knife-wielding victims” ran through train carriages.
The Daily Express writes that the “heroic” rail worker “single-handedly confronted the knifeman on the Huntington train” and described the incident as “one of Britain’s most shocking knife attacks”.
The suspected attacker was not known to counter-terrorism officers or security services, although police said there was no suggestion the incident was an act of terrorism, according to the Times.
Additional police officers will be deployed across the rail network this week, particularly in major hubs such as London, Birmingham, York, Leeds and Manchester, iPaper reports.
The Independent’s front-page photo shows forensic teams waiting on the platform of Huntingdon station, where the train made an unscheduled emergency stop.
The train attack makes the front page of the Financial Times but the newspaper has raised concerns among city bosses that the minimum wage is catching up with graduate starting salaries, which could negatively impact recruitment. The warning comes as the Chancellor is expected to announce a 4 per cent increase in the hourly minimum wage in the budget.
“Risky High St baby scans” are a precursor to Metro reporting “unsafe” private ultrasound clinics popping up in shopping centres, city center shops and industrial estates. In one case, a blood clot was “mistakenly determined to be a malformed fetus,” and the mother was subsequently advised to miscarry even though the baby was healthy.
