"A 32-year-old black British national and a 35-year-old Briton of Caribbean descent have been arrested, British Transport Police have said, after the incident on Saturday night after which 11 people were treated in hospital. It is not being treated as a terrorist incident. One of the men, brandishing a large knife, is believed to have been shot with a Taser by police at Huntingdon train station in Cambridgeshire, eastern England."
"Approximately 7.42pm yesterday evening, there were calls to the police service in relation to multiple stabbings which took place onboard a train service. Officers immediately attended Huntington station alongside paramedics, where armed police officers from Cambridgeshire police boarded the train and arrested two people within eight minutes of the 999 call being made. Two men were brought into police custody, where they remain this morning, he said."
Multiple stabbings occurred on the 6.25pm Peterborough to King’s Cross train, prompting a major-incident response and an emergency stop at Huntingdon station. Two men were arrested after armed officers boarded the train and one suspect, reportedly brandishing a large knife, was hit with a Taser. Eleven people received hospital treatment; ten were taken by ambulance and one self-presented. Four patients have since been discharged, while two remain in a life-threatening condition. Officers arrested both suspects within eight minutes of the initial 999 call and they remain in police custody.
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