Defence secretary John Healey said the knife rampage – which left nine people fighting for their lives – appears to be an ‘isolated attack’

A motorist was killed Thursday when their vehicle was struck by a commuter rail train near Grayslake, according to Metra. The collision took place at around noon on the Milwaukee-District North line, where Hainesville Road crosses the tracks, Metra spokesperson Meg Reile said.

Emergency services and forensics teams were seen working through the night at Huntingdon station after a mass stabbing on an LNER train on Saturday evening (1 Nov).PA

Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain denounced the attack and advised people in the area to “follow the advice of the police.”

In 1961, the massive, 50 megaton hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba was detonated by the Soviet Union over Novaya Zemlya. In 1972, two commuter trains crashed in Chicago, killing 45 people and injuring more than 300. It was the country's worst rail disaster in 14 years and it wouldn't be eclipsed for another two decades.