Huntingdon train stabbings LIVE: 10 injured in knife rampage - 9 fighting for their lives

Counter-terrorism officers have been called in after a horrific stabbing rampage on board a train left 10 people in hospital - with nine of them suffering from life-threatening injuries. British Transport Police said a "major incident" has been declared while passengers described their terror as multiple people were knifed in a shocking attack as an LNER train approached Huntingdon station, in Cambridgeshire, on Saturday evening.

The emergency services were called at 7.38pm with armed police storming the station and one suspect reportedly being Tasered. A witness told Sky News that he saw "maybe 12 people" being treated for injuries. He said a passenger fled through the train saying "I've been stabbed" and added: "They were extremely bloodied. That person ended up, when we pulled in, they were basically on the floor. We couldn't progress further down the train away from the suspect, because that person ended up collapsing on the floor.

"We were ushered out of the station on the platform, and there was multiple people that had been stabbed that were making their way down, but the suspect had also come off the train as well."

He also described the moment a suspect was arrested.

"Essentially, as they got closer to him, they started shouting, get down, get down," said the witness. "He then was waving a knife, quite a large knife, and then they detained him. I think it was a Taser that got him down in the end."

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said he was "deeply concerned" by the "appalling incident".

The train is believed to have been travelling to King's Cross station in London from Doncaster. The attack is understood to have started just after the train left Peterborough. It was not meant to have stopped at Hungtingdon, with the driver bringing the train to a halt there after passengers pulled the emergency cord.

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