Man accused of mass stabbing on a train in the U.K. charged

CAMBRIDGESHIRE, England (NBC, KYMA) - British police charged a 32-year-old man Monday with attempted murder over a mass stabbing attack on a train over the weekend that wounded 11 people.

It happened Saturday night during Halloween weekend, with lots of people coming into London for parties, and police say the stabbing started just after the train made the stop in Peterborough.

At that point, eyewitnesses describe indiscriminate stabbing running down the aisles and then people yelling, kind of run, run with blood dripping down their faces, blood on seats.

A couple of eyewitnesses even said they thought at first it was a Halloween prank, but then they realized it was serious.

At that point, two people really save lives. The first is an unnamed rail worker who, according to U.K. Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander, was seen in a video attempting to stop the attacker from injuring more people.

The second person is the train driver who made the very quick decision to make an emergency stop at the next train station Huntington.

This allowed police and emergency responders and services to be waiting at that train station just eight minutes after the first emergency call.

Video captured shows police pinning down, actually apprehending, taking two men into custody.

One of them, a 35-year-old man, was released after police determined he was not involved. However, the other man, 32-year-old Anthony Williams of Peterborough, was in court Monday, face ten charges of attempted murder and one charge of a possession of a blade.

Williams is also facing charges, according to police, from a previous incident Saturday of attempted murder.