{"id":543229,"date":"2025-11-02T02:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T02:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/543229\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T02:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T02:02:15","slug":"10-people-hospitalized-after-london-bound-train-stabbing-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/543229\/","title":{"rendered":"10 people hospitalized after London-bound train stabbing attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBritish police say 10 people have been taken to hospitals after a mass stabbing attack on a London-bound train, nine of them with life-threatening injuries.In a statement early Sunday, hours after the attack, British Transport Police also said the incident had been declared a \u201cmajor incident\u201d and that counter-terrorism police are supporting the investigation.\u201cTen people have been taken to hospital with nine believed to have suffered life-threatening injuries,\u201d it said. \u201cThis has been declared a major incident and Counter Terrorism Policing are supporting our investigation whilst we work to establish the full circumstances and motivation for this incident.\u201dEmergency services, including armed police and air ambulances, were quick to arrive on the scene shortly after they were alerted after 7:30 p.m. as the train drew into Huntingdon, a market town a few miles northwest of the university city of Cambridge.The stabbing attack appears to have been contained swiftly after the train arrived at the station.British Transport Police, which took the lead on the response, given it is responsible for security matters on the trains, said \u201cmultiple people\u201d were stabbed on the Doncaster to London King\u2019s Cross train as it headed into Huntingdon. It did not provide a motive for the attack.The East of England Ambulance Service said it had mobilized a large-scale response and that \u201cmultiple patients\u201d were hospitalized.Cambridgeshire Constabulary, the local police force, said armed police attended after officers were called to the scene at Huntingdon station at 7:39 p.m. on Saturday. It added that the two people were arrested at the station, which is around 75 miles (120 kilometers) north of London.British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his \u201cthoughts are with all those affected\u201d after the \u201cappalling incident.”Paul Bristow, the mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, said he had heard of \u201chorrendous scenes\u201d on the train.London North Eastern Railway, or LNER, which operates the East Coast Mainline services in the U.K., confirmed the incident had happened on one of its trains and urged passengers not to travel because of \u201cmajor disruption.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

British police say 10 people have been taken to hospitals after a mass stabbing attack on a London-bound train, nine of them with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n

In a statement early Sunday, hours after the attack, British Transport Police also said the incident had been declared a \u201cmajor incident\u201d and that counter-terrorism police are supporting the investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cTen people have been taken to hospital with nine believed to have suffered life-threatening injuries,\u201d it said. \u201cThis has been declared a major incident and Counter Terrorism Policing are supporting our investigation whilst we work to establish the full circumstances and motivation for this incident.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emergency services, including armed police and air ambulances, were quick to arrive on the scene shortly after they were alerted after 7:30 p.m. as the train drew into Huntingdon, a market town a few miles northwest of the university city of Cambridge.<\/p>\n

The stabbing attack appears to have been contained swiftly after the train arrived at the station.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEmergency personnel inspect a train at the Huntingdon, England, train station in Cambridgeshire after people were stabbed Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025.<\/p>\n

British Transport Police, which took the lead on the response, given it is responsible for security matters on the trains, said \u201cmultiple people\u201d were stabbed on the Doncaster to London King\u2019s Cross train as it headed into Huntingdon. It did not provide a motive for the attack.<\/p>\n

The East of England Ambulance Service said it had mobilized a large-scale response and that \u201cmultiple patients\u201d were hospitalized.<\/p>\n

Cambridgeshire Constabulary, the local police force, said armed police attended after officers were called to the scene at Huntingdon station at 7:39 p.m. on Saturday. It added that the two people were arrested at the station, which is around 75 miles (120 kilometers) north of London.<\/p>\n

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his \u201cthoughts are with all those affected\u201d after the \u201cappalling incident.”<\/p>\n

Paul Bristow, the mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, said he had heard of \u201chorrendous scenes\u201d on the train.<\/p>\n

London North Eastern Railway, or LNER, which operates the East Coast Mainline services in the U.K., confirmed the incident had happened on one of its trains and urged passengers not to travel because of \u201cmajor disruption.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British police say 10 people have been taken to hospitals after a mass stabbing attack on a London-bound…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[45713,748,44985,174713,393,174714,4884,52716,14965,174715,257,174712,19965,457,51167,133962,27023,5203,174710,174711,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-543229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-armed-police","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-british-police","11":"tag-cambridgeshire-constabulary","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-few-mile","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-huntingdon","16":"tag-incident","17":"tag-life-threatening-injury","18":"tag-london","19":"tag-london-king","20":"tag-p-m","21":"tag-people","22":"tag-response","23":"tag-scene","24":"tag-station","25":"tag-train","26":"tag-train-stabbing","27":"tag-train-stabbing-attack","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115477646724696185","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}