People who were on a train as ten people were injured in a multiple stabbing, including nine who sustained life-threatening wounds, have spoken of what they saw. The service was travelling between Doncaster and London King’s Cross. British Transport Police (BTP) confirmed that the force was called to reports of a multiple stabbing on board the 6.25pm train service from Doncaster to London King’s Cross at at 7.42pm. Officers attended Huntingdon station with paramedics.
Counter terrorism police are working with other investigators to establish exactly what happened. A witness told the BBC that an older man stopped an assailant stabbing a younger girl. The unidentified person suffered gashes to his head and neck, Olly Foster said. The only thing people had to protect them in one carriage was a bottle of Jack Daniels, he added. Initially, he heard people shouting “run, run, there’s a guy literally stabbing everyone”.
An injured man ran towards Wren Chambers shouting “someone’s got a knife”. She told the BBC that all passengers were just “packing forwards” and were “all huddled together”.
Passengers told Sky News that the stabbing started 10 minutes after the train left Peterborough, and that wounded people were seen running through the train away from somebody with a knife.
A man holding a large knife was later seen on the train platform with armed police pointing their weapons at him, one witness added – saying the man was then tasered and restrained.
Sky News was told by witnesses that the stabbings started around 10 minutes after the train left Peterborough, as passengers sounded the emergency alarm.
One witness said they later spotted a man holding a large knife on a platform, with armed police pointing their weapons at him.
The suspect man was tasered and restrained, they added.
