London, stabbing
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The stabbing took place on the 18.25 GMT Saturday night LNER train service from Doncaster to London's King Cross station. Passengers reported that at least one person brandishing a knife began stabbing passengers on the train after the train stopped at Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.
A routine train journey in eastern England turned chaotic when multiple people were stabbed on Saturday evening.
There were just 11 minutes between the moment British police received an emergency call about a stabbing on a train heading to London and the moment the suspect was arrested.
A councillor has apologised for comments he posted on social media following a knife attack on a train in Cambridgeshire. Multiple people were left injured following the mass stabbing on a Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday.
Incidents like the mass stabbing on a train from Doncaster to London King’s Cross on Saturday are mercifully rare in Britain. But recent figures show that other types of violent crime on our rail network are not.