LONDON (AP) — U.Ok. police on Monday charged a 32-year-old man with tried homicide over a mass stabbing attack on a train that wounded 11 folks, and stated he additionally tried to kill somebody at a London transit station earlier the identical day.
British Transport Police stated Anthony Williams is charged with 10 counts of tried homicide, considered one of precise bodily hurt and considered one of possession of a bladed article over the attack on Saturday.
Police stated he’s additionally charged with tried homicide over an earlier incident at Pontoon Dock gentle rail station in London simply earlier than 1 a.m. on Saturday, by which a sufferer “suffered facial accidents after being attacked with a knife” by an assailant who fled the scene.
Police stated investigators are additionally “taking a look at different attainable linked offenses.”
Police say they don’t seem to be treating the practice stabbings as an act of terror and will not be on the lookout for different suspects. A second man initially arrested as a suspect was launched with out cost on Sunday after it was decided the 35-year-old was not concerned.
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Williams, a British citizen from the town of Peterborough in jap England, is because of seem in court docket later Monday.
The minutes-long stabbing spree unfold worry and panic by a practice sure from Doncaster in northern England to London on Saturday night. The practice was about midway by its journey and had simply departed from a cease at Peterborough when police started receiving calls about folks being stabbed onboard.
Passengers described scenes of panic as bloodied vacationers raced down the practice to get away from the knifeman. Essentially the most critically wounded sufferer is a member of railway employees who tried to cease the attacker. Police referred to as his actions “ nothing short of heroic.”
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He’s hospitalized in a crucial however steady situation.
Williams was arrested when the practice made an emergency cease within the city of Huntingdon in jap England. Police say he was detained inside eight minutes of officers receiving the primary emergency calls.
Authorities stated the assault was an insolated incident however stepped up safety on the railway, with armed law enforcement officials on patrol Monday at main practice stations.
