‘I thought it was a Halloween prank – then people appeared covered in blood’

Eyewitnesses have described their horror after this 11 people were injured one in mass stabbing on one London-Bound train.

Dozens of passengers were forced to lock themselves in carriages and try to protect themselves from the brutal stabbing, which happened on the Doncaster to London LNER at 6.25pm. Service On Saturday.

Train stopped at unspecified place huntingtonWhere about 30 police officers boarded the train and arrested two people. According to British Transport Police, ten people were taken to hospital where a “heroic” LNER staff member remains in a life-threatening condition. A 32-year-old man is in custody on suspicion of attempted murder and is now considered the sole suspect.

crouching in a train compartment

When Alistair Day missed the return journey back to Hertford after a day out at football, he boarded the 6.25pm ​​service for the journey from Doncaster to King’s Cross.

Shortly after boarding, he went to the buffet car – then saw people running towards him, which he initially thought was a “prank”. Then, they noticed that they were covered in blood and looking for somewhere to hide after being attacked by an alleged knifeman.

Mr. Day, 58, told the BBC He was one of dozens of eyewitnesses who were forced to lock themselves inside the vehicle in the eight minutes between the first 999 call and the arrest.

He said, “I thought it was a prank – Halloween or students.” “Then they keep getting faster.”

When he saw that people had blood on them, he said he realized “this is not good”.

He joined a group while going to the buffet car where people were “trying to close the shutters”, but he told them “No, you have to let us in”.

He said he then saw “a guy at the window with his knife” trying to get in, but by then the buffet car was already locked. He also remembers a man in a Nottingham Forest tracksuit telling him: “I’m going to confront him.”

He said he later saw the man lying in a pool of blood on the train platform.

‘There was blood everywhere’

Joe, 24, told the BBC that he too was returning from playing football when he saw people running away from his train carriage.

“You need to run, you need to run,” he was told.

He added, “At first it didn’t really register what was happening.” “And then, quickly, I dropped my stuff and I started running with them.”

He added: “You just looked around and there was blood everywhere.”

‘I was bent over a chair – my hand was covered in blood’

Ollie Foster, a passenger on the train, said he initially thought he was witnessing a Halloween prank after fellow passengers heard the stabbing.

But when people started pushing the cart, he realized that something serious was happening. He told the BBC that he bent over a chair, not realizing he was covered in blood – and walked away covered in it.

He hid at the end of a carriage and talked to other passengers about anything they might be able to do to fend off the attacker. All they had to contend with was a bottle of whiskey, leaving them “staring at the car” and “praying” it would not enter.

Mr Foster said the 10 to 15-minute encounter “felt like forever”.

When he got off the train, he saw the full extent of the horror: “There were three people bleeding profusely.

“A man was holding his stomach, and there was blood coming out of his stomach and down his leg. He was saying, ‘Help, help, I’ve been stabbed.'”

Cassie Marriott tried to help people getting off the train, including a teenage girl who looked “terrified” after narrowly escaping an attack.

She told the BBC: “I met another young girl who was about 18 or 19 years old. She told me she was listening to music on the train when a man tried to stab her. She said someone pushed her out of the way.

“She looked absolutely terrified.”