A passenger who witnessed the mass stabbing aboard a London-bound train said he overheard a survivor’s frantic cry for help during the attack, shouting: “They’ve got a knife. I’ve been stabbed.”
Gavin told
UK broadcaster Sky News that several people were “extremely bloodied” after the stabbing spree.
UK police arrested two suspects after the attack late Saturday, which left ten people hospitalised, nine of them believed to have “life-threatening injuries.”
Armed officers, along with multiple police cars and ambulances, swarmed the railway station in the rural town of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, after the alarm was raised and the train was brought to a halt.
“Ten people have been taken to hospital following a multiple stabbing on a train in Cambridgeshire. Nine are believed to have suffered life-threatening injuries,” British Transport Police said on X, adding that counter-terrorism officers were assisting with the investigation.
Gavin said someone had pulled the emergency cord, forcing the train to make an unscheduled stop at Huntingdon, where armed police boarded soon after.
He recalled seeing a person move through his carriage, shouting, “They’ve got a knife, I’ve been stabbed.” The survivor, he said, was “extremely bloodied” and trying to get away from the attackers.
“By the time the train stopped, they were basically on the floor,” Gavin said. “That person ended up collapsing and was taken to an ambulance almost immediately.”
Sky News said its own reports from the scene were “quite terrifying” to hear, while both the broadcaster and AFP reported that a brief stampede-like situation unfolded as passengers tried to escape the chaos.
Another witness described seeing a man with a large knife and told The Times newspaper there was “blood everywhere” as people hid in the washrooms.
Some passengers were getting “stamped (on) by others” as they tried to run, and the witness told The Times.
Gavin also narrated how the police took the attackers captive.
“The armed police were pointing to the suspect as we came off the train. Police were shouting ‘get down, get down’! He (a suspect) was waving quite a large knife. They detained him. I think it was a Taser that got him down in the end,” he was quoted as saying by the broadcaster.
