2 CRITICAL AFTER MASS STABBING ON UK TRAIN; 2 HELD, TERROR RULED OUT

Ten people have been injured in a stabbing attack on a train in the UK, which has been declared a “major incident” and led to counter-terrorism police joining the investigation on Sunday.

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Emergency personnel inspect a train at the Huntingdon, England, train station in Cambridgeshire after people were stabbed.

Nine of those injured are said to have suffered life-threatening injuries in the attack on Saturday night, when armed police stormed the train at Huntingdon station in Cambridgeshire, eastern England, to make two arrests.

A man with a large knife is believed to have been shot by an officer with a taser shock-gun after what is being described as a bloody rampage on the train after it left nearby Peterborough station.

“Ten people have been taken to hospital following a multiple stabbing on a train in Cambridgeshire,” the British Transport Police (BTP) said in a statement on Sunday.

“Nine are believed to have suffered life-threatening injuries. A major incident has been declared and Counter-Terrorism Policing are supporting our investigation,” the statement said.

Two men are in custody after multiple stabbings on a high-speed train in Cambridgeshire that left two people with life-threatening injuries, police have said.