Dazed passengers were filmed stumbling off a train clutching blood-stained rag after a frenzied knife attack left 11 people hospitalised.
Striking footage, obtained by the Daily Mail, shows the confused victims look around themselves asking ‘where are we’ as they stumble off the platform.
An ‘absolute hero’ – who is said to have used his head to block a knifeman from stabbing a young girl – is also understood to be in the recording.
The harrowing video was filmed after the London North Eastern Railway (LNER) train was forced to make an unscheduled stop at Huntingdon station following a terrifying 15 minute knife rampage onboard.
Sirens can be heard blaring as the passenger holds a white rag to his head, with crimson-coloured blood seeping through.
He is assisted by another elderly passenger while one person can be heard shouting ‘is he ok’.
An attendant cries ‘everyone out’ while the person filming says ‘that’s mad’ as he records the injured gentleman walking away.
British Transport Police received reports of the incident at 7.42pm yesterday before racing to the scene, where armed officers boarded the train and detained the two suspects.
In a video, one man held a rag to his head as crimson-coloured blood seeped through
He was assisted by another elderly passenger while one person could be heard shouting ‘is he ok’
The dazed man can be seen stumbling around the platform after disembarking the train
Eye witness Olly Foster said he heard passengers shout ‘run, run’ onboard the LNER Doncaster to London King’s Cross train.
Police said 11 people had been treated in hospital and two remained in a ‘life-threatening condition’, while four had been discharged.
Two British nationals – one black, 32, and one of Caribbean descent, 35, – are being held on suspicion of attempted murder.
There is ‘nothing to suggest this is a terrorist incident’, officers added today.
Mr Foster said he had been listening to Audible on his phone in Coach H when warnings began to sound from other passengers.
He told the BBC: ‘There were a few of us kind of looking at each other, thinking was it a joke – like, it’s Halloween, they might be pranking.
‘But then you could kind of see in their faces they were running.
‘There was a girl, bless her, who was really, really in a bit of a state because the guy actually tried to stab her – and one of the older guys who as an absolute hero blocked it with his head.’
Mr Foster said the hero gentleman received a gash to his neck and head, prompting other passengers to hand him their jackets to help him stem the blood.
Passenger Olly Foster, who was in coach H, described how he was listening to an audiobook when a man ‘suddenly ran past screaming “Run! Run! There’s a guy stabbing literally everyone and everything”‘
The force has declared the attack a ‘major incident’ and is probing the stabbing spree alongside counter-terrorism police (Pictured: The train sitting at the platform on Sunday morning)
Police cars and Ambulances are pictured outside Huntingdon Station in Cambridgeshire
This is the dramatic moment one of the Huntingdon train stabbing suspects is Tasered and arrested by armed police
A video shows the man being Tasered as five armed cops tackle him to the ground – a police dog and its handler can also be seen
A number of people took to social media to praise the ‘hero old man’ who ‘put his head in the way to save a child’.
One X user said: ‘Praying for the victims of this horror. Praise for the man who shielded the young girl.
‘Thanks to the first responders and those caring for the injured.’
Mr Foster recalled how helpless he and the other passengers felt ‘being completely unarmed against an attacker or attackers that we thought had a gun’.
‘I’m not sure how travelling on trains will feel after this. I haven’t really processed it all. It felt genuinely surreal and is something I don’t wish anyone to experience.
‘Knowing somebody has weapons and you have nothing, knowing they’re willing to strike women and I think children. It wasn’t the England I grew up in. That was barbaric,’ he said.
Wren Chambers, who was also onboard, said she heard shouting coming from a carriage or two down.
She told the BBC: ‘Then a minute or two later, a man comes running down with a very clear wound bleeding quite badly on his arm and I thought it was a Halloween prank at first but then he was shouting that someone’s got a knife, he was stabbed.
Armed forces rushing to the scene where several people on a train travelling through Cambridgeshire were stabbed
Wren Chambers, who was also onboard, told the BBC she heard shouting coming from a carriage or two down
‘Then a few more people came running down the train and I grabbed my bag and my coat, then I got up and moved forward down the train after them and then it just ended up all the passengers along the train just packing forwards.’
Ms Chambers said she ‘saw someone who was very badly injured lots of blood around them’ who looked like they were ‘either collapsed or about to fall over’.
‘People were trying to pass back hoodies to pack the wound,’ she added.
The brave passenger made sure someone called the emergency services.
She said: ‘There was a girl next to me who was near where the first stabbings happened. She said the man on the floor stepped in front of her and then got stabbed in the neck.
‘We all just got off the train as calmly as possible as we were like there’s no point piling on to each other. We knew the attacker was likely to still be on the train further down the line.’
One passenger, called Gavin, recalled several people moving through the train during the horror attack, while hearing one say: ‘They’ve got a knife. I have been stabbed.’
‘They were making their way through to get away from the suspect,’ he told Sky News.
‘They were extremely bloodied. That person, when we pulled in, they were basically on the floor; we couldn’t progress further down the train because that person ended up collapsing.
‘We were ushered out of the station from the platform, and there were multiple people who had been stabbed who were making their way down.’
Passengers were then escorted off the train onto the platform at Huntingdon, he said.
‘The armed police were pointing to the suspect as we came off the train.’
In the hours after the attack, forensic officers could be seen apparently searching for clues on the track at the side of the train, which still had its lights on.
White-suited specialist officers, including one with a dog entered the station as a police drone hovered overhead.
Another member of the force, also with a police dog, was seen carrying out a sweep of the main station car park.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer described the ‘appalling’ incident near Huntingdon as ‘deeply concerning’.
‘My thoughts are with all those affected, and my thanks go to the emergency services for their response,’ he said in a statement.
‘Anyone in the area should follow the advice of the police.’
Ben Obese-Jecty, the MP for Huntingdon, said he had ‘never seen as big a response’ to an incident.
