UK Police: Train Stabbing Not Terror Attack

British authorities on Sunday announced that the mass stabbing incident on a train bound for London is not being considered a terrorist attack.

Counterterrorism police initially supported the investigation into the mass stabbing of passengers on a train traveling from the northern city of Doncaster to London’s King’s Cross that occurred on Saturday evening. Authorities declared “Plato,” the national codeword used when responding to a “marauding terror attack,” before rescinding the declaration.

Two men were arrested in connection with the attack within eight minutes of police receiving their first emergency call on Saturday evening. They are both British nationals, Loveless said in an update Sunday.

The two people arrested are a 32-year-old black British man and a 35-year-old British man of Caribbean descent, he added. Both remain in separate police stations for questioning.

Of the 11 people hospitalized due to the attack, four have been discharged and two remain in life-threatening condition, he added.