See it, say it, sorted. Everybody who uses the UK’s rail network knows the British Transport Police’s ubiquitous five-word mantra for reporting incidents on trains.
At 7.42pm on Saturday evening, the day after Halloween, the calls started coming in.
Callers gave details of a horrific mass stabbing on the 6.25pm LNER train from Doncaster in Yorkshire, travelling south to King’s Cross station in London.
Several passengers had been attacked, and the high-speed train diverted to a slower line for an unscheduled stop in Huntingdon, a small market town in Cambridgeshire, 110km north of London. LNER’s fast Azuma trains don’t normally go through there.
British Transport Police (BTP), Cambridgeshire police officers and UK counterterror officers rushed to Huntingdon station, where panicked passengers spilled out on to the pl
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