UK train stabbing attack leaves 9 critically injured, 2 suspects arrested

UK police arrested two suspects after a mass stabbing on a London-bound train late on Saturday that left 10 people in hospital, nine likely with “life-threatening injuries”.

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

“Ten people have been taken to hospital following a multiple stabbing on a train in Cambridgeshire. Nine are believed to have suffered life-threatening injuries,” British Transport Police said on social media, adding that counterterrorism units were supporting the investigation.

Transport police confirmed the train was running from Doncaster in the northeast to London’s King’s Cross Station, a busy route often packed with travellers.

A witness described seeing a man with a large knife and told The Times newspaper there was “blood everywhere”, as people hid in the washrooms.

Some passengers were getting “stamped [on] by others” as they tried to run, and the witness told The Times they “heard some people shouting we love [you]”.