British Transport Police say the "heroic" man who tried to stop the attack remains in hospital. Five others have been discharged.

There were just 11 minutes between the moment British police received an emergency call about a stabbing on a train heading to London and the moment the suspect was arrested.

A fundraising campaign is under way for a footballer injured during the stabbing attack on a London-bound train on Saturday evening. Scunthorpe United player Jonathan Gjoshe "sustained non-life-threatening injuries" when he was slashed across the bicep, the club told the BBC.

British authorities say 10 people were stabbed aboard a train headed to London on Saturday evening, with nine suffering life-threatening injuries, in a crime the prime minister ca

U.K. police said Sunday that two people remain in a life-threatening condition following a mass stabbing on a London-bound train the previous evening. Authorities added that there was "nothing to suggest" the attack was a terrorist incident.

"Having viewed the CCTV from the train, the actions of the member of rail staff were nothing short of heroic and undoubtedly saved people's lives," a BTP spokesman said. The suspect, a black British man from Peterborough, boarded the London North Eastern Railway (LNER) train at the city's station, the force said.