Counterterrorism police are investigating a stabbing attack on a train in England which left 10 people wounded, most of them with life-threatening injuries.

A motorist was killed Thursday when their vehicle was struck by a commuter rail train near Grayslake, according to Metra. The collision took place at around noon on the Milwaukee-District North line, where Hainesville Road crosses the tracks, Metra spokesperson Meg Reile said.

British police say 10 people have been taken to hospitals after a mass stabbing attack on a London-bound train, nine of them with life-threatening injuries.

Multiple people have been stabbed on a train that eventually stopped at Huntingdon, in Cambridgeshire, where police arrested two men in connection with the attack

In 1961, the massive, 50 megaton hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba was detonated by the Soviet Union over Novaya Zemlya. In 1972, two commuter trains crashed in Chicago, killing 45 people and injuring more than 300. It was the country's worst rail disaster in 14 years and it wouldn't be eclipsed for another two decades.

A person was killed when a Metra train struck a vehicle near Grayslake, Illinois, north of Chicago on Thursday afternoon. Metra Milwaukee District North train No. 2113 struck a vehicle near Grayslake and Hainesville. Metra said the accident was fatal, but did not have further information on it.

A car fire on a railway track has disrupted train services. The vehicle was ablaze at Brockenhurst level crossing in the New Forest earlier. An elderly man made it safely out of the car before it was consumed by flames, according to posts on social media.