A British man accused of stabbing passengers on a train in eastern England was not known to counter-terrorism police or security services.

The attack on Saturday evening - which police said was not being treated as terrorism - left 11 people injured, including a member of the train crew who remains in hospital in a critical but stable condition, transport minister Heidi Alexander said.

Five of the injured had been discharged from hospital by late on Sunday.

Alexander told Times Radio on Monday that the 32-year-old suspect, who was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, had not been flagged to counter-terrorism authorities before the attack.

"I can tell you he was not known to counter-terrorism police, he was not known to security services," Alexander said, adding she could not comm

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