Huntingdon train stabbing suspects are both British nationals, police reveal

Police have arrested two British nationals following the stabbing on a train in Huntingdon.

In a major update this morning, the British Transport Police said the men arrested on suspicion of attempted murder are a 32-year-old black British national and a 35-year-old British national of Caribbean descent.

British Transport Police Superintendent John Loveless said the two were taken into custody within eight minutes of a call being placed to emergency services last night following the attack on the train, a high-speed service which had stopped at the Cambridgeshire station as it travelled to London King's Cross.

Police initially declared “Plato”, the national code word used by police and emergency services when responding to a “marauding terror attack”, before the declaration was later re