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15 minutes of horror in train mass stabbing – Today in Focus Extra

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The Guardian

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4.6 β€’ 5.7K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Guardian senior reporter Ben Quinn on the shocking knife attack on a train from Doncaster to London. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:09.0

This afternoon, a horrifying mass stabbing on a London-bound train.

0:14.0

The train from Doncaster was packed with people heading out on a Saturday night, the day after Halloween.

0:30.8

About an hour from London, it was suddenly clear that something terrible was unfolding.

0:36.6

A guy suddenly run past going, run, run, there's a guy stabbing literally everyone at everything. At first, there was a few of us kind of looking at each other, like thinking, was it a joke, like it's Halloween, I'd be pranking. And then I look at my hand and there's covered in blood, and then I look at the chair and there's blood all over the chairs. And I'm thinking, okay, this is pretty serious. The train made an emergency stop at Huntingdon Station in Cambridgeshire,

0:58.5

where emergency services were able to board,

1:01.3

and the grim reality of a mass stabbing became clear.

1:05.3

Ten people are in hospital, nine with life-threatening injuries,

1:09.8

after a mass stabbing on a train in

1:12.1

Cambridgeshire on Saturday evening.

1:14.5

A 32-year-old man has been charged with 10 counts of attempted murder, and police are

1:19.9

investigating if he could be linked to three other knife attacks on the same weekend.

1:25.5

From The Guardian, I'm Lucy Hoff.

1:30.8

Today in Focus Extra, what we know about the shocking knife attack on a Cambridgeshire train. Ben Quinn, you're a Guardian senior reporter,

1:43.0

and you've been in Huntington reporting from the scene of this terrible attack.

1:47.6

First of all, walk me through what we know about what happened on Saturday night.

1:52.5

Well, on Saturday night, I think many people would have learned about it via a news flash on their phones.

1:58.7

And this was a train which left Doncaster at around about 6.25 p.m.

2:03.9

It should have arrived in Kings Cross two hours later.

2:07.3

But made a way through the journey, something awful happened.

2:11.4

And what we now know is that a man with a knife began stabbing people on this train.

2:16.6

And around 10 people have been hospitalized, many of them

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