UK police arrested two suspects after a multiple stabbing on a London-bound train late Saturday, with “a number of people” taken to hospital triggering a “large-scale” emergency response.

Armed police, backed by police cars and a fleet of ambulances, swarmed the station in the eastern rural town of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, after the alarm was raised about the attack and the train brought to a halt there.

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

Cambridgeshire police said: “A number of people have been taken to hospital.”

Transport police confirmed the train was running from Doncaster in the northeast to London’s King’s Cross Station,

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