The 20 terrible minutes endured by the passengers of the train

On Saturday night a train from Doncaster bound for London was badly diverted after an alarm was raised on board. A man armed with several knives, believed to have joined the Pethorborough train, carried out a vicious attack on several victims. Within 20 minutes a suspect was apprehended in Cambridgeshire, more than 70 miles from the intended destination in King’s Cross of London.

Eleven people were treated at the hospital, where one person remains in a stable but critical condition. The BBC spoke to passengers and robbed victims alongside the video and police statements to build a picture of how the attack and the emergency response.

The attack started an hour after the LNer train left Doncaster. At 19:29 it pulled out of Statesborough Station, where the suspect was apparently riding. Just five minutes later the alarm was pulled near the middle of the train on coach J.

Amira Osalski and a friend, both students at Notham University, got on the train past the Grantham Stop and were traveling to London to “have fun”.

Amira was sitting watching a movie when she saw a man in a white dress jump out of her seat about five rows in front of her followed by “knife, knife”. Amira then finds a man holding a large kitchen knife and flees towards the back of the train with her friend.

In the next carriage, coach h, YouTuber Olly Foster heard shouts of “run, there’s someone giving up on everything”, and at first thought it was a Halloween prank. But as the passengers began to push the carriage Olly saw “blood all over the seat” he trusted, his hand covered in blood.

Olly saw an old man, thought to be a member of the LNer staff, who “stopped” the attacker from attacking a younger woman, leaving him with a cut on his head and neck.

Nottingham Forest Fan Joe, 24, was not made to be on the train. He watched the team’s football game against Manchester Unser earlier and missed a connecting train to Grutham.

Joe was texting his friends about his plans for the night when people were rushing the carriage. “You gotta run, you gotta run,” someone told Joe. He started to run but when he turned to look behind him he saw “a tall black man who” was holding “a bloody knife”.

Matt Kingston took out his headphones as he saw a group of people heading for coach h and also started running on the train. Another Nottingham Forest Fan Alistairair Day, 58, was next to the Cafe Bar on the Train in Coach G, and saw people fleeing the train with blood on their clothes.

The railroad train turns into an improper hiding place for those fleeing the attacker. Alistair said he saw around a dozen people inside the attached buffet counter on coach g and they were “trying to close the shutters” to protect themselves from the killer. It turns out that Matt was able to enter the booth with others.

Alistair saw the man near the door brandishing a knife and trying to open the shutters, which had previously been locked. A video he provided to the BBC from inside the CAFE BAR showed several passengers inside, with at least one on the phone to the emergency services. Alistair and another Witness, Tom McLaughlan, told the BBC that they saw a fan in the forest moving to confront the attacker. “He’s not the biggest guy. We’re trying to stop him,” Alistair said.

They appear to be referring to Stephen Crean who later told the BBC that the man pulled out a large knife when he confronted him outside the cafe bar. “He’s gone and there’s a passage in the arm and where my hand is, the fingers are bad, four cuts in them, and I’m dug in the head.”

Stephen said he was trying to give another passenger time to close the cafe bar door. “That door hasn’t been closed behind me, because I still see him struggling to close it. So until I know I’m not walking away from it.”

Matt said the attacker then walked through the locked door while swinging the knife around. “He got back on the train and let us through again.” At that point a young man told Matt that he was stabbed in the chest “so I helped put pressure on the wound and helped him stop him”.

Another victim of the train attack was SCUNTHORTHTE NI NETIKE FOODBALLER JONATHAN GJOSHE, who broke his bicep and later required an operation.

When the alarm was raised the driver of the train, Andrew Johnson, a veteran of the Navy, who acted and contacted the Control Center. The decision was made to move the train, which was traveling at 125mph (2015mph (201 H), on a slower track, allowing it to be called at Huntingdon Station a few minutes later.

The East of England ambulance ambulance Ambulance received the first emergency call at 19:38. A minute later, the Cambridgeshire Police received a report about a number of leaks on a train. Together, they activated a Response Center outside Huntingdon Station, less than 300m away from police headquarters. At 19:41 the train arrived at the station, a minute before the British transport police were also called to the incident.

CCTV footage obtained by a car park business shows passengers running from platform two to the main station building. A dramatic tick video, parked from a bridge on Brampton Road looking over the tracks and station with the train on the same platform.

Tom sees two men who appear stoned “covered in blood” as he flees the train. Alistair said he saw a man in the cafe bar being taken to an ambulance by paramedics. “I just want to know he’s okay,” she said.

Emergency services took 10 people to the hospital where one victim was treated. Six patients have since been released.

The LNer staff member who remains in a critical but stable condition “undoubtedly saved people’s lives” by trying to stop the attacker, British transport police said.

CCTV Footage shows a man climbing over a fence at the station at 19:43 to an adjacent car park while holding a knife.

Amira, hiding behind coach G armed with a metal tray to fight the attacker if necessary, runs to her friend to safety as she gets to the train.

But they saw the man walking in their direction. Fearing for their lives, they hid in a taxi. An aerial image captured by Amira’s friend showed the man being detained by six police officers near several sheds in the car park, about 50m (160ft) from the fence.

Video captured on video from a separate Taxi cab shows officers armed with guns, tasers and accompanied by a dog restraining a dog on the ground. Clicks from the Taser can be heard in the footage.

By 19:50 The police have two men in custody, 32-year-old Anthony Williams, and a 35-year-old man who was released a day later after establishing he was not involved. On Monday morning Williams appeared in court charged with 10 counts of attempted murder in the train attack.

Additional reporting by Adam Durbin.