'I was chased through Huntingdon train with blood sprayed on tables after mass stabbings'
An eyewitness who was onboard the train during the Huntingdon stabbing said passengers feared the attacker had a gun as they ran away from the knife-wielding maniac
A passenger on the train where a mass stabbing took place in Huntingdon has shared his terrifying experience, revealing that he and other passengers initially feared the attacker was armed with a gun.
The man, who wished to remain anonymous, was returning from a Nottingham Forest football match when he narrowly missed his scheduled train, leading him to board the service to King's Cross.
Settling into his journey, he began listening to music through his noise-cancelling headphones and texting friends about a party he was planning to attend later that evening. However, just 10 minutes into the journey, panic ensued as passengers from the carriage ahead came rushing through the doors.
Recalling the chilling moment, he said: "At first I thought it was Halloween, is this some sort of joke? Is it a prank? And that's when I realised how panicked they looked, and then I saw someone who was covered in blood."
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"Someone was [at] first worried there was a gun, someone said 'oh there's a guy we think he's got a gun', but that wasn't the case," reports the Express.
"We weren't able to move super rapidly because A - there were quite a few of us, and B - there was at least one person in our group of people moving through the train who had been stabbed."
Unveiling chilling new details about one of the attackers, he said: "We looked back and I could see this tall Black male, early 30s... he looked dead behind the eyes, and he was moving towards us, chasing us with what looked like a kitchen knife. It was bloodied and he was moving through the carriages.
"He wasn't running towards us, but he was walking with intent, it was quite a spooky walk. He almost looked possessed.
"The most horrifying thing at the time was that we were obviously on a moving vehicle, and we didn't know how long we were going to be stuck on there.
"The scarier bit was that we were walking through the train away from this guy, but we didn't know how many carriages we could keep going through before we reached the back end of the train."
Upon reaching Huntingdon, he described the fleeting yet false sense of relief when the doors opened, explaining that he and fellow passengers had a "weird feeling for like a second where you felt it was over, then you quickly realised this guy was still there".
He continued: "I didn't look back, I just got off the platform... people [were] saying 'he's coming off, he's coming off!'".
Despite the terrifying ordeal, the passenger said he was holding up and also highlighted acts of bravery and kindness during the frenzied knife attack.
He remembered a young man in his 20s stepping up and trying to help one of the attacker's bleeding victims.
"There was a lad really taking the lead, just trying to calm everyone down and trying to make sure this woman was all right and that she got the support she needed. So this guy was shouting 'has anyone got something like a hard object or any clothes that we can wrap [her injury with]. I had a T-shirt in a bag that I chucked over."
Standing about in Huntingdon railway station car park, he revealed that one kind local resident offered him a cuppa and somewhere to charge his phone, whilst he waited for a mate to drive up from London and collect him.
This morning the British Transport Police confirmed 11 people have received hospital treatment, with two still in a "life-threatening condition".
Two men were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, a 32-year-old Black British national and a 35-year-old British national of Caribbean descent.
Superintendent John Loveless confirmed the assault is not presently being treated as terrorism.