Watch as British Transport Police gave an update on the knife attack on a London-bound train which two people fighting for their lives.
Speaking to press outside Huntingdon station, Superintendent John Loveless confirmed four of the ten people initially taken to hospital following the attack have now been discharged. Two remain in a life-threatening condition.
Two suspects have been taken into custody, one a 32-year-old Black British national, and the second a 35-year-old British national of Caribbean descent.
Armed police rushed to Huntingdon station in Cambridgeshire after reports of a man with a large knife stabbing passengers on a Doncaster to London LNER train on Saturday evening.
Two people have been arrested, with witnesses describing a man with a knife being taken down by a police Taser.
The attack is understood to have begun shortly after the train left Peterborough station, with Cambridgeshire police saying the first emergency calls were received at 7.39pm.
Witnesses described passengers hiding in toilets and train seats covered in blood, with some being “stamped on” as people attempted to flee the attack.
Police said late on Saturday there had not yet been any fatalities after the attack, and a tenth victim had been admitted to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
