British police dismissed speculation on Sunday that a mass stabbing attack on a London-bound train the previous evening was terrorist-related and said two people who were injured in the incident remain in life-threatening condition.
Police also said that two men, born in the United Kingdom, remain in custody. They were arrested eight minutes after the first emergency calls were made from aboard the train, where passengers had reported scenes of acute fear and chaos.
“This is a shocking incident and my thoughts are with those who have been injured and their families,” British Transport Police Superintendent John Loveless said outside the station in Huntingdon in eastern England where the train halted soon after the attack.
“There is nothing to suggest this is a terrorist incident,” he added.
The two arrested remain in custody, he said and added that one is a 32-year-old Black British man, the other is a 35-year-old man of Caribbean descent.
Loveless also gave an update on those injured in the attack, reducing the number in life-threatening condition from nine to two. He said four of the injured have now been discharged and that one other person had arrived at the hospital, taking the overall number injured in the attack to 11.