A 38-year-old man, who shouted “death to Muslims” before stabbing a passenger at a south-east london Overground station, has been arrested.
British Transport Police (BTP) officers were called to Forest Hill station in south-east london last evening after receiving reports that a man had been assaulted on a train.
“The man, in his forties, was rushed to hospital with injuries consistent with having been stabbed. He remains in hospital in a serious, but not life threatening, condition,” a BTP statement said.