Witness reveals what UK train attacker yelled at police after mass stabbing
Gerrard Kaonga
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A witness has revealed the disturbing thing he heard the UK train knife attacker yell while he was being tackled to the ground by police officers.
Over the weekend on November 1st, police officers in the UK were called to a harrowing incident on a train from Doncaster that was heading to London.
An armed response unit was dispatched eight minutes after a 999 call was made that said a frenzied knife attack was underway on the train. It made an unscheduled stop at Huntingdon, in Cambridgeshire, shortly after.
As many as 11 people were wounded in the knife attack and required hospital treatment, with two people said to remain in a serious condition.
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One of the individuals in a serious condition is believed to be a member of train staff who attempted to intervene in the attack.
When authorities arrived, they swiftly apprehended the suspect with a taser and arrested two men in their 30s, one aged 35, and another 32.
Authorities later confirmed that the 35-year-old was released after it was confirmed that he was not involved in the incident.
The 32-year-old has since been identified as a Black British national from Peterborough, named Anthony Williams.
He has been charged with 10 counts of attempted murder, one count of actual bodily harm, and one count of possession of a bladed article following the knife attack.
A taxi driver witness, who saw Williams being taken down police, recorded a video of the moment and reported hearing the suspect repeatedly call for the police to kill him.
Speaking to The Sun, the taxi driver said: “I had arrived at the station pick up point at 7.41 pm and was waiting for a passenger.
“As soon as I see the passenger a few minutes later I then see everybody running out of the station.
“Then 10 seconds later a man dressed in black holding a huge kitchen knife in his hand runs past my car at 7.47 pm. The police arrive seconds later and I could hear him shouting ‘kill me, kill me, kill me’ to them.
“They then taser him and as soon as he is down they say to him ‘drop your weapon’, that’s when I started recording.
“I didn’t understand the gravity until after I left the area and saw the huge police presence. I was shocked and then I knew it was bad.”
Counter-terrorism officials were initially called in to ascertain what happened in the 'major incident', though police have since said it appears an 'isolated attack'.