Gavin Grey: UK Correspondent comments on train stabbing between London and Doncaster

9 people were left in a critical condition after a knife attack on a train in the UK. 

It is believed that a man on the train, which was moving from Peterborough to London on a fast-track line, pulled out knives and started attacking passengers once it was on the move.

UK Correspondent Gavin Grey told Andrew Dickens that the incident was not terror related. 

'Originally counterterrorism police were investigating this. We are now being told it is likely not to be terror related.'

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kevin Gray from the UK. Good morning, mine in there, Andrew.
The London train from Doncaster was a horror show.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm afraid. So it's a great deal of shock in
this country actually over what happens. So this was a
train traveling from Doncaster in the north of England now
to London on a Saturday night and all of a sudden,
after it had stopped at its sort of last big
stop at Peterborough, it was then supposed to be running
direct through to London on a fast line. Sadly, two

(00:29):
men are then believed to have got up with knives
and started stabbing people. At the moment, we have been
told that two are being held. They are British nationals
and being questioned on suspicion of attempted murder. We now
know that there are two in hospital with life threatening conditions.
Earlier today it was said to be up to nine,

(00:49):
so that's a more positive figure, and now four have
been discharged from hospital. A quick thinking train driver, when
he was alerted that there was a crisis on board,
moved phone ahead to the control center and moved the
train from the fast line which he wouldn't have been
able to stop on and they were diverted to the
slower line and then the train stopped at an unscheduled

(01:13):
stopped at Huntingdon, about one hundred and fifty kilometers north
of London, and they're at the platform. The police met
the train, everyone poured off and two men there were arrested. Now,
originally counter terrorism police were investigating this. We are now
being told it is likely not to be terror related.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yes, and indeed the people who are against immigration have
been going on about them being immigrants, but they're British born,
aren't they And said the question will be how many
generations do you have to live in England and before
you become not an immigrant?

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
More details are coming out of this pair, but at
the at the moment, just that bald statement as it were,
just saying they are British nationals and they are being questioned.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
All right, I thank you for your turn, Kevin Gray
from the UK.

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