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\nPolice and British Transport Police officers walk on the platform alongside an LNER Azuma train at Huntingdon Station in Huntingdon, eastern England, on 1 November, 2025, following a stabbing on a train.
\nPhoto: JUSTIN TALLIS \/AFP\n<\/p>\n
UK police said they had arrested two suspects Saturday as “a number of people” were taken to hospital after a stabbing on a train in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.<\/p>\n
“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”.<\/p>\n
Cambridgeshire police said: “A number of people have been taken to hospital.”<\/p>\n
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the “appalling” incident was “deeply concerning”.<\/p>\n
“My thoughts are with all those affected, and my thanks go to the emergency services for their response,” Starmer said in a statement on X.<\/p>\n
“Anyone in the area should follow the advice of the police,” he added.<\/p>\n
Armed police were at the scene after being alerted around 7.40pm local time and the train was stopped at Huntingdon, a market town in east England, police added.<\/p>\n
Train operator London North Eastern Railway (LNER) said all its railway lines had been closed while emergency services dealt with the incident at Huntingdon station.<\/p>\n
LNER, which runs trains along the east of England and Scotland, urged passengers not to travel, warning of “major disruption”.<\/p>\n
It serves major stops including in London, Peterborough, Cambridge, York and Edinburgh.<\/p>\n
The mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Paul Bristow said in a post on X: “Hearing reports of horrendous scenes on a train in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire”, adding that his “thoughts are with everyone affected”.<\/p>\n
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\nUK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
\nPhoto: AFP \/ Pool \/Alberto Pezzali\n<\/p>\n
Knife crime<\/p>\n
Knife crime in England and Wales has been steadily rising since 2011, according to official government data.<\/p>\n
While Britain has some of the strictest gun controls in the world, rampant knife crime has been branded a “national crisis” by Starmer.<\/p>\n
His Labour government has tried to rein in their use.<\/p>\n
Nearly 60,000 blades have been either “seized or surrendered” in England and Wales as part of government efforts to halve knife crime within a decade, the interior ministry said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Carrying a knife in public can already get you up to four years in prison, and the government said knife murders had dropped by 18 percent in the last year.<\/p>\n