{"id":544679,"date":"2025-11-02T18:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/544679\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T18:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:27:11","slug":"man-arrested-over-uk-train-stabbings-released-without-charge-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/544679\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested over UK train stabbings released without charge, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AP) \u2014 Police were questioning a 32-year-old British man Sunday on suspicion of attempted murder over a mass stabbing attack<\/a> that spread fear and panic on a London-bound train and left 11 people hospitalized.<\/p>\n

A second man initially arrested as a suspect was released without charge. Police said they have determined that the 35-year-old was not involved. Police are not treating the stabbings as an act of terror, but have not disclosed a possible motive or the type of knife, or knives, used.<\/p>\n

Six people remained in hospitals Sunday, one of them in a life-threatening condition. Police said he is a member of railway staff who tried to stop the attack and saved many lives with his \u201cheroic\u201d actions. Five other injured people were discharged from hospitals.<\/p>\n

The men were arrested eight minutes after the first emergency calls were made at 7:42 p.m. Saturday from aboard the train, where passengers had reported scenes of panic and chaos<\/a> with many running through the carriages and some seeking safety in the toilets.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a shocking incident and my thoughts are with those who have been injured and their families,\u201d British Transport Police Superintendent John Loveless said outside the station in Huntingdon in eastern England where the train halted soon after the attack. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere is nothing to suggest this is a terrorist incident,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The train made an emergency stop in Huntingdon, a market town around 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of London. Bloodied and confused passengers spilled out of the train as dozens of police waited, some of them armed.<\/p>\n

During the immediate response to the attack, police said that \u201cPlato,\u201d the national code word used by police and emergency services when responding to what could be a \u201cmarauding terror attack,\u201d was initiated. That declaration was later rescinded.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this early stage it would not be appropriate to speculate on the causes of the incident,\u201d Loveless said.<\/p>\n

The attack took place as the 6:25 p.m. train from Doncaster in northern England to London\u2019s King\u2019s Cross station was about halfway through its two-hour journey, having just departed from a stop at Peterborough.<\/p>\n

Passenger Olly Foster told the BBC he heard people shouting \u201crun, run, there\u2019s a guy literally stabbing everyone,\u201d and initially thought it might have been a Halloween prank \u2014 Saturday was the day after Halloween. But as passengers pushed past him to get away, he noticed his hand was covered in blood from a chair he had leaned on. <\/p>\n

Following reports that some of those on board the train put themselves in harm\u2019s way to protect others, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood praised the \u201cexceptional bravery of staff and passengers on the train.\u201d<\/p>\n

King Charles III said he and his wife, Queen Camilla, sent their sympathies and thoughts to those affected and that they were \u201ctruly appalled and shocked to hear of the dreadful knife attack.\u201d<\/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 said there would be major disruption on the route until Monday.<\/p>\n

British Transport Police\u2019s Loveless said passengers will see a \u201chigh visibility presence of police officers at stations and on trains\u201d on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Police were questioning a 32-year-old British man Sunday on suspicion of attempted murder over a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[188,4179,175109,518,2003,257,12,2607,16,15,8520,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-544679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-general-news","11":"tag-john-loveless","12":"tag-king-charles-iii","13":"tag-law-enforcement","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-queen-camilla","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-violence","20":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115481519530433758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544679","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=544679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}