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.

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