Blood was “everywhere" and passengers “hid inside washrooms" as multiple people were stabbed aboard a London-bound train on Saturday evening, witnesses told local media. Police and emergency services swarmed the Huntingdon station in Cambridgeshire after the train was stopped, arresting two people in connection with the attack.

“We are currently responding to an incident on a train to Huntingdon where multiple people have been stabbed," British Transport Police said on X, confirming that “two people have been arrested."

The train, travelling from Doncaster in the northeast to London’s King’s Cross Station, was packed with weekend travellers. Police said ten people were hospitalised, adding that nine of them had suffered “life-threatening injuries."

“A major incident has been declared an

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