{"id":351935,"date":"2025-11-03T05:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/351935\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T05:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:41:10","slug":"what-to-know-about-a-train-stabbing-attack-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/351935\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know about a train stabbing attack in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AP) \u2014 A routine railway journey was plunged into chaos when multiple people were stabbed aboard a train<\/a> speeding through eastern England.<\/p>\n

Two men were initially arrested over the Saturday evening attack<\/a>, which left almost a dozen people injured. Police later released one of the men saying he was not involved in the attack.<\/p>\n

Police are still working to uncover a motive, but say it doesn\u2019t appear to be an act of terrorism.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what to know:<\/p>\n

The train was heading for London<\/p>\n

The train left Doncaster in northern England at 6:25 p.m., bound for London\u2019s King\u2019s Cross station. It was about halfway into its 2-hour journey and had just departed from a stop at Peterborough when police began receiving calls about people being stabbed onboard.<\/p>\n

Passengers described panicked travelers, some covered in blood, rushing down the aisle of the train to get away from the carriage where the violence was unfolding.<\/p>\n

Olly Foster said he heard someone yelling, \u201cRun, run, there is a guy stabbing literally everyone,\u201d and at first thought it was a Halloween prank \u2014 until he noticed blood on his hand from touching seats in the train carriage.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone was really pushing behind us, really panicking,\u201d Foster told the BBC. He said he saw several people bleeding heavily from wounds.<\/p>\n

Police responded within minutes<\/p>\n

The British Transport Police, which handles security on the railways, said it received the first emergency calls at 7:42 p.m.<\/p>\n

Within minutes, several dozen police officers, including specialist firearms officers, and paramedics were at the train station in Huntingdon, a town about 75 miles (120 kilometers) north of London.<\/p>\n

Soon after, the train made an unscheduled stop at the station and passengers streamed onto the platform as armed police officers ran toward the train.<\/p>\n

Two suspects initially detained, one later released<\/p>\n

British Transport Police said that within eight minutes of the first emergency calls, officers from Cambridgeshire Constabulary, the local force, had boarded the train and detained two men.<\/p>\n

Witnesses said officers used a Taser to subdue one suspect who was holding a large knife.<\/p>\n

Police later released one of the detained men, a 35-year-old British citizen, without charge, saying detectives had established that he was not involved in the attack.<\/p>\n

The remaining suspect is a 32-year-old British man who is being questioned on suspicion of attempted murder. Police say they are not looking for anyone else.<\/p>\n

Two victims are in life-threatening condition<\/p>\n

Police said 10 people were taken to nearby hospitals and an 11th went to a hospital on their own.<\/p>\n

Initially, nine were classed as having life-threatening injuries. But by Sunday evening police said only one remained in life-threatening condition: a railway staff member who tried to stop the attack. Police called his actions \u201cnothing short of heroic.\u201d <\/p>\n

Police seek a motive but say it\u2019s not terror<\/p>\n

Police Supt. John Loveless said counterterror police were initially called in to support the investigation, but that \u201cat this stage, there is nothing to suggest that this is a terrorist incident.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the investigation is being led by British Transport Police, and \u201cit would not be appropriate to speculate on the cause of this incident.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Sunday the train remained at Huntingdon station and police wearing forensic suits, with a police dog, were working on the platform.<\/p>\n

Leaders express sympathy<\/p>\n

Senior politicians and royalty expressed concern and sympathy for the victims and their friends and families.<\/p>\n

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood paid tribute \u201cto the exceptional bravery of staff and passengers on the train.\u201d<\/p>\n

King Charles III said he and Queen Camilla were \u201cappalled and shocked.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur deepest sympathy and thoughts are with all those affected, and their loved ones,\u201d the royal couple said in a statement. \u201cWe are particularly grateful to the emergency services for their response to this awful incident.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 A routine railway journey was plunged into chaos when multiple people were stabbed aboard a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":351936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10762,57,171590,45981,2936,2676,50,120633,45980,5343,376,8572,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-351935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-assault","9":"tag-general-news","10":"tag-john-loveless","11":"tag-king-charles-iii","12":"tag-law-enforcement","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-queen-camilla","16":"tag-royalty","17":"tag-terrorism","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-violence","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}