UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the “appalling” incident was “deeply concerning”.<\/p>\n
“My thoughts are with all those affected, and my thanks go to the emergency services for their response,” Starmer said in a statement on X.<\/p>\n
“Anyone in the area should follow the advice of the police,” Starmer added, while his interior minister Shabana Mahmood confirmed two people had been taken into custody.<\/p>\n
“MULTIPLE PATIENTS”<\/p>\n
Armed police were at the scene after being alerted around 7.40pm (1940 GMT) just after the train had left the town of Peterborough.<\/p>\n
Late Saturday, police were inspecting the train, which was being treated as a crime scene. People were also led away outside the station in space blankets, an AFP photographer saw.<\/p>\n
The East of England Ambulance Service said on X that it had mobilised a “large-scale response” to Huntingdon station, including ambulances, air ambulances and tactical commanders.<\/p>\n
Train operator London North Eastern Railway (LNER) said railway lines were closed while emergency services dealt with the incident.<\/p>\n
LNER, which runs trains along the east of England and Scotland, urged passengers not to travel, warning of “major disruption” with the lines blocked in the area.<\/p>\n
The mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Paul Bristow, said on X that he was aware of “horrendous scenes”, adding that his “thoughts and prayers (are) with everyone affected”.<\/p>\n
The identity of the two people arrested was not immediately known, nor was the motive for the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the “appalling” incident was “deeply concerning”. “My thoughts are with all those…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,2800,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-543396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-stabbing","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115478110201463396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543396","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=543396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}