Soccer Player Among 10 Hurt in Train Stabbing

A 22-year-old professional soccer player was among 10 people injured in a stabbing attack on a high-speed train traveling from Doncaster to London on Saturday evening, authorities said. The incident, which unfolded shortly after the train departed from Peterborough, prompted an emergency stop at Huntingdon station, where British Transport Police arrested a suspect at the scene.

Jonathan Gjoshe, a defender who signed non-contract terms with fifth-tier National League club Scunthorpe United in September, sustained a slash wound to his bicep during the assault. He underwent surgery and remains hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, according to a statement from the club. Gjoshe had played in a match for his other team, ninth-tier Bottesford Town, just hours earlier that afternoon, featuring in a 2-1 home loss to Handsworth in the Northern Counties East Football League Premier Division.

Police charged Anthony Williams, 32, of no fixed address, with 10 counts of attempted murder, one count of actual bodily harm and one count of possession of a bladed article in connection with the train attack. Williams also faces an additional charge of attempted murder and possession of a...