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LONDON (AP) — U.K. police on Monday charged a 32-year-old man
with attempted murder over a lass stabbing attack on train that
wounded 11 people.
British Transport Police said Anthony Williams is charged with
10 counts of attempted murder, one of actual bodily harm and one
of possession of a bladed article over the attack on Saturday.
He is also charged with attempted murder over a separate
incident at Pontoon Dock transit station in London earlier the
same day, and police said investigators are “looking at other
possible linked offenses.”
Police say they are not treating the stabbings as an act of
terror.
Williams, a British citizen from the city of Peterborough in
eastern England, is due to appear in court later Monday.
The minutes-long stabbing spree spread fear and panic through a
train bound from Doncaster in northern England to London on
Saturday evening. The suspect was arrested when the train made
an emergency stop in the town of Huntingdon in eastern England.
Passengers described scenes of panic as bloodied travelers raced
down the train to get away from the knifeman. The most seriously
wounded victim is a member of railway staff who tried to stop
the attacker. Police called his actions “nothing short of
heroic.”
He is hospitalized in a critical but stable condition.
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