Nine people were treated for life-threatening injuries after a series of stabbings on a train near Cambridge in eastern England on Saturday, and two men were arrested in what Prime Minister Keir Starmer called an \u201cappalling incident.\u201d<\/p>\n
British Transport Police said counterterrorism police were supporting its investigation whilst it works to establish the full circumstances and motivation for the incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re conducting urgent enquiries to establish what has happened, and it could take some time before we are in a position to confirm anything further,\u201d British Transport Police Chief Superintendent Chris Casey said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this early stage it would not be appropriate to speculate on the causes of the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cambridgeshire police said they were called at 1939 GMT after reports that multiple people had been stabbed on the 1825 service from Doncaster in northern England to London King’s Cross.<\/p>\n
The train stopped at Huntingdon, with armed officers seen entering the train in videos on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cArmed officers attended and the train was stopped at Huntingdon, where two men were arrested,\u201d the police said.<\/p>\n
One eyewitness told Sky News that one of the suspects, waving a large knife, was tasered by police.<\/p>\n
The East of England Ambulance Service said it mobilised a large-scale response to Huntingdon Railway Station, which included numerous ambulances and critical care teams, including three air ambulances.<\/p>\n
Starmer posted on X that the incident was \u201cdeeply concerning.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy thoughts are with all those affected, and my thanks go to the emergency services for their response,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine people were treated for life-threatening injuries after a series of stabbings on a train near Cambridge in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[174775,174776,174777,174778,174779,174780,174781,174782,33764,748,393,4884,174783,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-543359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britishtransportpolice","9":"tag-cambridgetrainstabbing","10":"tag-counterterrorisminvestigation","11":"tag-doncastertolondontrain","12":"tag-emergencyservicesresponse","13":"tag-huntingdonincident","14":"tag-trainstabbing","15":"tag-uktrainattack","16":"tag-breakingnews","17":"tag-britain","18":"tag-england","19":"tag-great-britain","20":"tag-keirstarmer","21":"tag-london","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115478003985664909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543359","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=543359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}