{"id":239819,"date":"2025-11-02T15:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T15:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/239819\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T15:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T15:51:15","slug":"uk-pol-tells-country-to-get-on-with-your-lives-after-train-mass-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/239819\/","title":{"rendered":"UK pol tells country to ‘get on with your lives’ after train mass stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The British government is telling citizens to keep calm and carry on after a terrifying mass stabbing<\/a> on a train, which left 11 people wounded \u2014 two of whom are still fighting for their lives. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no reason for the rest of us not to get on with our lives,\u201d Defense Secretary John Healey said, describing the incident near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, as \u201cisolated\u201d in an\u00a0interview with Sky News<\/a>\u00a0Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

Police claimed Sunday that \u201cthere is nothing to suggest\u201d that the attack was terrorism \u2014 despite the scale and horror of the carnage, which saw the train in rural England awash with blood and passengers arming themselves with Jack Daniels bottles<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The UK is still reeling from a mass stabbing attack on a train Saturday night. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Two British citizens, age 32 and 35, have been arrested for attempted murder following the stabbing shortly after 7:30 p.m. on board a London North Eastern Railway (LNER) train traveling from Doncaster in South Yorkshire to London\u2019s King\u2019s Cross Station,\u00a0British Transport Police Superintendent John Loveless said<\/a>\u00a0Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

It is unclear where they boarded the train, and no further details have been given about their origins or motivations by police.<\/p>\n

\u201cTen people were taken to the hospital by ambulance and another person self-presented at the hospital later that evening. While nine were initially believed to have life-threatening injuries, following assessment and treatment, four have been discharged and two patients remain in a life-threatening condition,\u201d Supt. Loveless said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe declared a major incident yesterday and Counter Terrorism Policing were initially supporting our investigation however, at this stage there is nothing to suggest this is a terrorist incident,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

11 people were wounded, two critically, while two suspects are in custody. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n

The mayor of Huntingdon, a market town of just 25,000 people around 60 miles north of London, spoke of her disbelief at the shocking attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something I never thought would ever happen around Huntingdon,\u201d mayor Audrey McAdam told Sky News through tears.<\/p>\n

She described how police told her the attack reportedly happened in the 12 minutes between the train leaving Peterborough station and before it was stopped at Huntingdon.<\/p>\n

The mayor of the small town of Huntingdon, Audrey McAdam, called the attack a \u201chorror film.\u201d news.sky.com<\/p>\n

\u201cTo live in that moment\u2026 It\u2019s a horror film, complete horror,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Huntingdon station remained taped off by cops on Sunday morning, with the train where the stabbing took place still visible on the platform.<\/p>\n

A beefed-up police presence is expected on trains Sunday to reassure the public, Supt. Loveless added.<\/p>\n

Amid the horror, individual stories of bravery have emerged.<\/p>\n

Eyewitnesses described how an\u00a0older man blocked one of the attackers<\/a>\u00a0from stabbing a younger girl, suffering wounds to his head and neck, while others prepared to fight back using a Jack Daniels bottle.<\/p>\n

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer described the \u201cappalling\u201d attack as \u201cdeeply concerning,\u201d in\u00a0a statement on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy thoughts are with all those affected, and my thanks go to the emergency services for their response,\u201d the Labour politician added.<\/p>\n

King Charles said he is \u201ctruly appalled and shocked to hear of the dreadful knife attack\u201d in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur deepest sympathy and thoughts are with those affected, and their loved ones,\u201d he said, speaking on behalf of his wife, Queen Camilla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The British government is telling citizens to keep calm and carry on after a terrifying mass stabbing on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,51003,56,54,55,231],"class_list":["post-239819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-stabbings","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}