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LONDON (AP) — U.K. constabulary connected Monday charged a 32-year-old antheral with attempted execution implicit a wide stabbing onslaught connected a train that wounded 11 people, and said helium besides tried to termination idiosyncratic astatine a London transit presumption earlier the aforesaid day.
British Transport Police said Anthony Williams is charged with 10 counts of attempted murder, 1 of existent bodily harm and 1 of possession of a bladed nonfiction implicit the onslaught connected Saturday.
He is besides charged with attempted execution implicit a abstracted incidental astatine Pontoon Dock airy obstruction presumption successful London earlier that day, and constabulary said investigators are “looking astatine different imaginable linked offenses.”
Police accidental they are not treating the stabbings arsenic an enactment of panic and are not looking for different suspects. A 2nd antheral initially arrested arsenic a fishy was released without complaint connected Sunday aft it was determined the 35-year-old was not involved.
Williams, a British national from the metropolis of Peterborough successful eastbound England, is owed to look successful tribunal aboriginal Monday.
The minutes-long stabbing spree dispersed fearfulness and panic done a bid bound from Doncaster successful bluish England to London connected Saturday evening. The bid was astir halfway done its travel and had conscionable departed from a halt astatine Peterborough erstwhile constabulary began receiving calls astir radical being stabbed onboard.
Passengers described scenes of panic arsenic bloodied travelers raced down the bid to get distant from the knifeman. The astir earnestly wounded unfortunate is simply a subordinate of railway unit who tried to halt the attacker. Police called his actions “ thing abbreviated of heroic.”
He is hospitalized successful a captious but unchangeable condition.
Williams was arrested erstwhile the bid made an exigency halt successful the municipality of Huntingdon successful eastbound England. Police accidental helium was detained wrong 8 minutes of officers receiving the archetypal exigency calls.
Authorities said the onslaught was an insolated incidental but stepped up information connected the railway, with equipped constabulary officers connected patrol Monday astatine large bid stations.
