"Multiple people" have been stabbed on a train near Cambridge and two people have been arrested in connection with the incident.

British Transport Police said on X that officers are "currently responding to an incident on a train to Huntingdon where multiple people have been stabbed".

Cambridgeshire Constabulary, the local police force, said armed police attended after officers were called to Huntingdon station at 7:39pm on Saturday (6:39am AEDT on Sunday).

Huntingdon station is around 120km north of London.

"Officers are in attendance alongside @CambsCops and two people have been arrested."

Witnesses described seeing a man with a large knife and passengers hiding in the toilets to escape the rampage, The Times reported.

One witness told the paper there was "blood everywhere" and peo

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