Moment Huntingdon train attack suspect is wrestled to the floor as he shouts ‘kill me, kill me’: Police say two British nationals – one ‘black’ and one of ‘Caribbean descent’ – are being held for attempted murder

This is the dramatic moment one of the Huntingdon train stabbing suspects is tasered and arrested by armed police.

The shocking mobile phone footage was taken by a taxi driver who was near the front of the station waiting to pick up a passenger.

Videos shows the man being tasered as five armed cops tackle him to the ground – a police dog and it’s handler can also be seen.

The Taser can be heard pulsing as officers shout ‘give me your f***ing hands’ as they try to put him in handcuffs – while a suspect was heard shouting: ‘Kill me, kill me.’

British Transport Police received reports of multiple stabbings on the train at 7.42pm yesterday before officers raced to the scene in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, in just eight minutes.

A 32-year-old black male and a 35-year-old black male of Caribbean descent were arrested by Cambridgeshire Police when officers stormed on board. Both men are British nationals. 

A total of 10 passengers were rushed to Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge last night – with two remaining in critical condition today, police said.

Officers have also today said there was ‘nothing to suggest this is a terrorist incident’.

Police had at one point declared Code Plato, a word used by police and emergency services when responding to a ‘marauding terror attack’.

However, this declaration was later rescinded, BTP confirmed.

Viorel Turturica, 42, the taxi driver who captured the footage, said before the man was arrested he was shouting ‘kill me, kill me, kill me’ to the officers.

The taxi driver said: ‘I had arrived at the station pick up point at 7:41 pm and was waiting for a passenger.

‘As soon as I see the passenger a few minutes later I then see everybody running out of the station.

‘Then 10 seconds later a man dressed in black holding a huge kitchen knife in his hand runs past my car at 7:47 pm.

‘The police arrive seconds later and I could hear him shouting ‘kill me, kill me, kill me’ to them.

‘They then taser him and as soon as he is down they say to him ‘drop your weapon’, that’s when I started recording.

‘I didn’t understand the gravity until after I left the area and saw the huge police presence.

‘I was shocked and then I knew it was bad.’

Another picture shows several ambulance staff treating a victim outside the station.

The LNER journey was going as planned when, just after departing Peterborough station at 7.30pm on Saturday, what the mass stabbing attack began to unfold.

The usual buzz of a Saturday night train became louder and more disorienting for Olly Foster, who told the BBC that when he first heard people shouting ‘run, run, there’s a guy literally stabbing everyone’ he thought it might have been a cruel Halloween prank.

He did not yet know it, but 10 people had been knifed in what would become one of the biggest mass stabbings in Britain.

Passengers were seen hiding in train toilets to escape the rampage, The Times reported, after a man with a large knife made his way through a carriage.

There was ‘blood everywhere’, a witness told the newspaper, and growing distress as people tried to flee to safety.

An emergency alarm was pulled and the train driver brought the Class 800 Azuma to a halt in the quiet Cambridgeshire town of Huntingdon.

For Mr Foster, who told BBC News the incident ‘felt like forever’, the chaos was unfolding eerily slowly.

At first he did not notice the blood on the red seat moquette fabric, but as people began to panic he found his hand was ‘covered in blood’.

There was ‘blood all over the chair’ he had leaned on.

One of the victims is thought to be an older man, who Mr Foster said he saw deliberately getting in an attacker’s way to shield a younger girl from the knife, sustaining injuries to his head and neck as he did so.

Superintendent John Loveless, from British Transport Police, provided an update on Sunday morning while speaking at the scene in Huntingdon.

He said: ‘It’s a shocking incident and first and foremost, my thoughts are with the family and friends those who have been affected and those who are injured.’ 

Supt Loveless told today how 11 people had been treated in hospital and two remained in a ‘life-threatening condition’, while four had been discharged.

He said: ‘Ten people were taken to hospital by ambulance and another person self-presented later that evening.

‘While nine were initially believed to have life-threatening injuries following assessment and treatment four, thankful to say, have been discharged.

‘However, two patients remain in a life-threatening condition.’

A passenger, who gave his name as Gavin, told Sky News he saw an ‘extremely bloodied’ victim who collapsed on the carriage floor.

By 7.39pm, Cambridgeshire Constabulary police had been called, with British Transport Police (BTP) on its way by 7.42pm.

Sirens wailed through the November night with ambulance crews and firefighters also called to the scene – Ben Obese-Jecty, the MP for Huntingdon, said he had ‘never seen as big a response’ to an incident.

Armed police were seen running down the platform at the station, trying to safely evacuate passengers and neutralise any ongoing threat.

One suspect is believed to have been shot with a Taser by police after the bloody rampage.

‘Essentially, as they got closer to him, started shouting, like, ‘get down get down’,’ a passenger told Sky News.

‘He then was waving a knife, quite a large knife, and then they detained him. I think it was a Taser that got him down in the end.’

Forensic officers in white coveralls were seen taking photographs of the scene on Saturday night, where two people were arrested.

The train still sits stationary at Huntingdon on Sunday morning, as emergency services try to piece together what exactly happened.

Officials say inquiries into establishing the ‘full circumstances and motivation’ are still ongoing.

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”.’

Mr Foster said he and some other passengers thought it was a ‘joke’ or a ‘Halloween prank’ at first but ‘quickly realised they were serious’ by the look on their face.

He explained how his hand was ‘covered in blood’ after he put it on a chair as he ran through the carriage.

‘There was blood on the top of countless chairs, coming from two of the guys who had been severely stabbed ahead of me,’ he said.

‘A young girl was distraught as the attacker tried to stab her, but a hero of an older man got in the way taking a gash on his forehead and I think another on his neck.’

Mr Foster and other horrified passengers ran to the end of the short train and queued up where he and a few others tried to find a weapon to defend themselves with in case the attackers came.

One person, who Mr Foster knew, had a Jack Daniel’s bottle which he armed himself with.

Mr Foster said: ‘I knew he had a knife from everyone’s wounds but from somebody’s previous comments there was a chance he had a gun. So I stood there praying.

‘We all tried to keep calm but you could feel everyone’s adrenaline.’

He said the train eventually stopped moving and everyone ran off, adding: ‘As I ran out, I looked to my right knowing that’s where the attacker would come and that’s when I saw about 20 people running in pure panic.

‘At least three of which were covered in blood. One guy was holding his stomach of which blood was pouring out, shouting “Help, help, I’ve been stabbed”.’

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.’

Wren Chambers, who was also onboard, told the BBC she heard shouting coming from a carriage or two down.

She added: ‘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.

‘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.’

Passenger 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.’

Chief Superintendent Chris Casey said: ‘This is a shocking incident and first and foremost my thoughts are with those who have been injured this evening and their families.

‘We’re conducting urgent enquiries to establish what has happened, and it could take some time before we are in a position to confirm anything further. At this early stage it would not be appropriate to speculate on the causes of the incident.

‘Our response is ongoing at the station and will be for some time. Cordons are in place and trains are not currently running through the area, and there are also some road closures.

‘I thank the public for their patience and their cooperation this evening which has already greatly assisted our policing response. We will update you again as soon as we have more information.’

Anyone with information who hasn’t already spoken to police is asked to contact BTP by texting 61016 quoting reference 663 of 01/11/25.