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At least nine people are being treated for life-threatening injuries after a mass stabbing on a train in the UK. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called the attack an “appalling incident.”
BritishTransport Police said counterterrorism police were supporting its investigation as it seeks to establish the establish the circumstances and motivation behind the incident.
“We’re conducting urgent enquiries to establish what has happened, and it could take some time before we are in a position to confirm anything further,” British Transport Police Chief Superintendent Chris Casey said.
“At this early stage it would not be appropriate to speculate on the causes of the incident.”
Police were called to Huntingdon train station in Cambridgeshire at just after 7.30pm on Saturday evening after reports that multiple people had been stabbed on a train travelling from Doncaster to King’s Cross, London.
“Armed officers attended and the train was stopped at Huntingdon, where two men were arrested,” the police said.
Eyewitnesses said one man wielding a large knife was tasered by police.
Prime Minister Starmer said on X that the incident was “deeply concerning.”
“My thoughts are with all those affected, and my thanks go to the emergency services for their response,” he said.
Four people are now reported to have been discharged from hospital.
Police have also confirmed that the two suspects arrested are a 32-year-old black British man and a 35-year-old British man “of Caribbean descent.”
Both were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
The attack was the second mass stabbing in the UK in a week.
On Monday, a 49-year-old man was killed and a 45-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy were injured in a knife attack in north-west London. The man arrested for the attack, Safi Dawood, is an Afghan refugee who arrived in the UK in 2020.
In September, a Syrian refugee, Jihad al-Shamie, launched a car-and-knife attack on a synagogue in Manchester, which resulted in the death of two worshippers and the attack, who was shot by police.
