Multiple people were stabbed on the 6.25pm LNER service from Doncaster to London King’s Cross on Saturday (November 1), with police first receiving 999 calls at around 7.40pm.
After this the train made an unscheduled stop at Huntingdon, in Cambridgeshire, where armed police from Cambridgeshire Police boarded the train and arrested two men.
These men – a 32-year-old black British national and a 35-year-old British national of Caribbean descent – were arrested within eight minutes of the first 999 calls, British Transport Police (BTP) have confirmed.
They remain in police custody and are being kept at separate police stations for questioning.
A total of 11 victims were treated in hospital, with two still fighting for their lives – while four people have since been discharged.
Nottingham Forest Football Club have said in a statement that many of its London-based supporters were travelling on the 6.25pm train, heading home after a match at the City Ground.
Police have said there is “nothing to suggest” the stabbing attack was a terrorist incident, and the terror threat level in the UK remains unchanged.
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London is among several cities across the country which can expect to see a “surge” in police presence at stations until at least Tuesday, government sources told PA news agency.
However, officers are likely to be most visible in London and Huntingdon.
Disruption between London King’s Cross and Peterborough is expected to continue until the end of the day on Monday (November 3), National Rail have said.
