Passengers sheltered in buffet carriage, eyewitness tells BBCpublished at 09:08 GMTBreaking
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Eyewitness Matt Kingston was travelling on the LNER train where the attack took place. He was wearing his headphones and was first alerted to the incident when people started running through the train, he tells BBC Breakfast.
As the noise got louder, he says he realised it was “time to go”, leaving carriage H and running towards the buffet carriage.
Train staff started closing the shutters to the buffet carriage in an attempt to shelter those inside from the attack. There were around “10 of us jammed in there”, Kingston says.
He describes one man leaving the cart in an attempt to confront the attacker.
Through the window of the carriage, Kingston says he could see the attacker walk past with “quite a large kitchen knife”. Then nothing for about 30 seconds, before the attacker came back the other way.
The attacker wasn’t saying anything or running rapidly through the train, Kingston says. He describes the environment as “really strange” and “kind of calm in a sense”.
Kingston helped a young man who had been stabbed, putting pressure on a wound using “blue roll” from the buffet carriage. “Everyone around” was trying to help, he says.