The national flag of the United Kingdom. (Mainichi)


LONDON (Kyodo) — Ten people were taken to hospital, with nine of them critically injured, after a stabbing rampage on a train in Britain on Saturday, police said.


Police in Cambridgeshire boarded the train at Huntingdon station and arrested two suspects in connection with the stabbings, the British Transport Police said.


The police said they received reports at 7:42 p.m. regarding the attack aboard the train from Doncaster to London King’s Cross station.