British prosecutors announced on Monday that they have filed charges against a man who carried out a knife attack on a London-bound train on Saturday.
The 32-year-old Briton was charged with 10 counts of attempted murder over the stabbing that left several people hospitalized with serious injuries, as well as one count of attempted murder at a London transit station earlier in the day.
The suspect was also charged with two counts of causing bodily harm as well as unlawful possession of a bladed article.
Authorities say these incidents were isolated and are not being treated as terrorist attacks.
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Eleven people were injured in the train attack, one of whom – a crew member who is hospitalized in serious but stable condition – is credited with ending the siege. Five people who were hospitalized with injuries have been released.
The stabbing incident, which lasted several minutes, forced a Doncaster to London train to make an emergency stop at Huntingdon just minutes after departing from a regularly scheduled stop at Peterborough.
It was in the criminal’s hometown of Peterborough that the knife-wielding man entered the train.
Police say their officers were on the scene eight minutes after receiving the first emergency call from passengers on the moving train.
The attacker, who Transport Minister Heidi Alexander said was not known to police, will appear at Peterborough Magistrates Court on Monday afternoon.
Edited by: Rana Taha