Two people have been arrested in connection with the stabbing of multiple people on a passenger train in Cambridgeshire, England, police said on Saturday.
British Transport Police (BTP) officers were called to the scene in the town of Huntingdon.
BTP said in a social media post: “We are currently responding to an incident where multiple people were stabbed on a train to Huntingdon.”
Huntingdon Station was closed following the incident.
Cambridgeshire Police said they had deployed armed officers to Huntingdon station.
Police were called at 7:39 p.m. (3:39 p.m. ET) to reports of multiple people being stabbed on a train, according to a statement from X.
Police added that “a number of people were taken to hospital.”
Cambridgeshire Police said the incident was still ongoing and appealed to the public to pass any information they may have to colleagues at BTP, who are leading the investigation.
London North Eastern Railway (LNER), the railway company that operates trains on the East Coast Main Line, said in a statement to X: “Major disruption is occurring across LNER lines.”
“Emergency services are responding to an accident at Huntingdon Station. All lines are closed,” LNER added.
The company said, “Our advice is not to travel.We ask that you postpone your trip as much as possible.”
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the incident “extremely worrying”.
“My thoughts are with everyone affected and I would like to thank the responding emergency services. Anyone in the area should follow police advice,” he told X.
British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said she was “deeply saddened to hear about the stabbing” and said her “thoughts go out to all those affected”.
“Two suspects were immediately arrested and taken into custody,” she said in a post to X.
Mahmoud said he was receiving regular updates on the investigation and urged the public to avoid “speculating at this early stage” about what was behind the stabbing.
The East Coast Main Line is one of the UK’s busiest and most important railway lines. It connects major cities from King’s Cross in London to Edinburgh Waverley in Scotland.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
