‘They’ve A Knife, I’ve Been Stabbed’: Witness Recalls Panic, Screams During UK Train Stabbing

Last Updated:November 02, 2025, 11:32 IST

Gavin, a passenger who was aboard the train running from Doncaster in the northeast to London's King's Cross Station, heard someone yelling that they had been stabbed.

Police and British Transport Police officers walk on the platform alongside an LNER Azuma train at Huntingdon Station in Huntingdon, eastern England. (IMAGE: AFP)

A passenger who witnessed the mass stabbing aboard a London-bound train said he overheard a survivor’s frantic phone call during the attack, shouting: “They’ve got a knife. I’ve been stabbed."

Gavin, the passenger, 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.

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.

A 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.

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