British prosecutors have charged a 32-year-old man with 10 counts of attempted murder following a mass stabbing on a London-bound train that left almost a dozen passengers injured.

Anthony Williams has also been charged with one count of attempted murder and possession of a bladed article over an earlier incident in east London.

He is due to appear at Peterborough Magistrates' Court on Monday.

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 remained 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 suspect had not been flagged

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