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A project manager has described how she pleaded with a train knifeman to spare her life before he told her: "The Devil is not going to win." ‌

Dayna Arnold, 48, boarded the London-bound LNER Azuma with her partner, site manager Andy Gray, 37, but within minutes witnessed the horrifying attack unfold near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire,. The couple had been sitting in Coach J, at the opposite end of the carriage from the assailant, when he began an eight-minute rampage that left two people fighting for their lives. ‌

She said she became separated from Andy as passengers fled in panic. When she fell to the floor, she begged, "please don't," as the attacker stood over her holding a six-inch kitchen knife, reports the Mirror. ‌

Dayna said: "I was running and when I

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