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According to British Transport Police (BTP), “multiple people have been stabbed” on a train bound for Huntingdon. Armed officers were deployed to Huntingdon station, which was subsequently closed. The incident was reported at 7:39 p.m. local time. “A number of people have been taken to hospital,” Cambridgeshire Police confirmed, as quoted by CNN.

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Two people have been arrested after a number of people were stabbed on a passenger train in Cambridgeshire, England, on Saturday, police said. Officers from British Transport Police (BTP) were at the scene in the town of Huntingdon.

The UK authorities have detained a 32-year-old individual following a major knife attack on board a passenger train in Cambridgeshire, that left 11 persons injured.

One rail worker confronted the attacker and the train driver acted quickly to stop the train, during a frenzied knife attack on a London-bound train.