Passengers sheltered in a buffet car, eyewitness tells BBCpublished at 09:08 GMT
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Eyewitness Matt Kingston was traveling 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 onto the train, he told BBC Breakfast.
As the noise grew louder, he said he realized it was “time to go”, leaving Car H and running towards the buffet car.
Train staff began closing the shutters of the buffet car in an attempt to protect the people inside from the attack. There were about “ten of us, crammed in there,” says Kingston.
It describes a man leaving the cart to try to confront the attacker.
Through the car window, Kingston said he could see the attacker walk by with “a pretty big kitchen knife.” Then nothing for about 30 seconds, before the attacker comes back the other way.
The attacker didn’t say anything or run quickly across the train, Kingston said. He describes the environment as “really strange” and “pretty calm in a way.”
Kingston helped a young man who had been stabbed, putting pressure on a wound using the “blue roller” from the buffet trolley. “Everyone around” was trying to help, he said.
