UK police say only one man suspected of train stabbings
Newshour
BBC
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🗓️ 2 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
British police say a 32-year-old man is now being treated as the only suspect in a mass stabbings on a train in England on Saturday. A second man detained at the scene has been released.
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(Photo: Police met the Doncaster to London King's Cross train as it made an unscheduled stop at Huntingdon. Credit: PA MEDIA)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.1 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London. |
| 0:15.1 | I'm Tim Fraggs. |
| 0:16.7 | We're going to begin with a remarkable bit of testimony of a young woman who witnessed a moment, |
| 0:21.9 | actually several minutes of horror aboard an English train, pretty much this time last night. |
| 0:28.4 | It was when the express from Doncaster in the north of England was about halfway through its journey down to London. |
| 0:34.2 | Suddenly, there was a mass stabbing. |
| 0:36.9 | Within a few minutes, the train driver was able to divert and come to an unscheduled stop at a station. |
| 0:42.8 | Armed police poured forth. |
| 0:44.9 | Two British-born men were initially arrested, |
| 0:47.7 | although only one is now being held on suspicion of attempted murder. |
| 0:51.7 | Eleven people needed treatment in hospital of whom one remains in a life |
| 0:56.0 | threatening condition. As I mentioned, in a moment, we'll hear from a passenger. But first, with the latest, |
| 1:01.5 | here's our UK correspondent, Daniel Sanford. And Daniel, of the people still in hospital, |
| 1:10.0 | or the person still in hospital, what have police said? |
| 1:14.3 | Yeah, I mean, this time last night there were nine people with life-threatening injuries in hospital in Cambridge. |
| 1:22.1 | Only one person is still in that situation, and he is a member of the train staff. |
| 1:27.9 | These express trains have a driver, |
| 1:30.4 | but they also have at least one member of staff |
| 1:33.0 | who is in the train itself, |
| 1:35.6 | who used to be traditionally called a guard. |
| 1:37.7 | These days they have kind of other titles. |
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