Train attack in England: Police say they have ruled out ‘terrorist’ motive

Two men were arrested on suspicion of participating in the crime; ten people were injured, nine of them in serious condition

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Police officers and a canine officer work on the platform at Huntingdon station in Huntingdon, east England, following a stabbing on a train

Police said this Sunday (2) that they were ruling out a terrorist motive following the knife attack that left at least ten people injured, nine of them seriously, the previous day on a train near Cambridge, in , and for which two suspects were arrested. “At this time, there is nothing to suggest that this was a terrorist incident,” British Transport Police Superintendent John Loveless said in a brief press conference.

He also specified that the two people arrested on suspicion of attempted murder are a “32-year-old black British man and a 35-year-old British man of Caribbean descent.”

*With information from AFP
Published by Nícolas Robert

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