What have witnesses stated concerning the Huntingdon practice stabbing?

After 10 folks have been critically injured in a mass stabbing on an LNER practice, passengers stated their seats have been stained with blood and so they have been attempting to guard themselves with bottles.

British Transport Police (BTP) obtained reviews of a number of stabbings on Saturday's 18:25 GMT service from Doncaster to London King's Cross and the practice stopped at an unscheduled cease in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, having final stopped at Peterborough.

Ollie Foster, a passenger on the practice, instructed the BBC that he initially heard folks shouting “Run, run, there's a guy literally stabbing everyone”, and believed it might have been a Halloween-related prank.

He stated that inside minutes, folks began pushing the cart, and he seen that his hand was “soaked in blood” as there was “blood all over the chair” on which he was leaning.

Mr Foster stated an older man stopped the attacker from stabbing a bit of lady, inflicting wounds to her head and neck.

Passengers round him used jackets to attempt to cease the bleeding.

He additional stated that the folks in his automotive may solely use a bottle of whiskey towards the attacker, leaving them “staring at the car” and “praying” that he wouldn’t enter the automotive.

Although it lasted a complete of 10-Quarter-hour, Mr Foster says the incident “felt like forever”.

Describing the scene when he received off the practice, he stated: “There were three people bleeding severely. One man was holding his stomach and blood was flowing from his stomach and down to his leg.”

“He was going 'Help, help, I've been stabbed.'

The train's only other scheduled stop before King's Cross was to be at Stevenage in Hertfordshire.

Wren Chambers, who was about to land at Stevenage, said he first knew something was wrong when a man ran down the carriage with a bloodied hand and said, “He's received a knife, run”.

Wren said he and a friend ran to the front of the train and found a man lying on the floor.

Wren said he felt “harassed and fairly scared” when he realized what was happening, but eventually managed to get off the train unharmed.

“There was plenty of blood on the practice, a few of it was on my bag, a few of it was on my denims,” he told BBC Radio 5 Live.

“As quickly because the practice stopped and other people received off, most of them ran outdoors attempting to get away from it, as a result of we knew the attacker was nonetheless contained in the practice.”

Other witnesses reported seeing a man with a large knife and passengers hiding in a toilet, The Times reports.

One man told Sky News he believed he saw the suspect being tased before he was arrested.

He said: “Essentially, as they got closer to him, they started yelling, like, 'Get down, get down'.

“Then he was brandishing a knife, quite a large knife, and then they took him into custody.

“I feel in the long run it was the Taser that put him down.”

London Underground worker Dean MacFarlane told the BBC that he saw the train stopping at Huntingdon railway station at 20:00, with a bloodied passenger.

He said that upon arrival, he saw several people running down the stage covered in blood, including one man in a white shirt “utterly lined in blood”.

He stated he grabbed folks and requested them to go away the station, and tried to help passengers who he believed have been having panic assaults.