London Canary Wharf tube station evacuated as police shout ‘get out as quick as you can’

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    1. From the linked Mirror story:-

      >*Police temporarily closed off the Underground station, and TfL confirmed the Jubilee line wasn’t running due to a “customer incident”. The station later reopened.*

      Sounds like standard passenger taken ill stuff.

    2. Some more info.

      >A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: ‘We were called at 12.50pm today (6 August) to reports of a person fallen from height at Canary Wharf Underground Station, Bank Street, E14.

      >’We sent resources to the scene, including an ambulance crew, a paramedic in a fast response car, an incident response officer and members of our hazardous area response team (HART).

      >’We treated a man at the scene and took him to a major trauma centre.’

      [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13714585/Londons-Canary-Wharf-tube-station-evacuated-police-yelling-quickly-people-seen-sprinting-away.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13714585/Londons-Canary-Wharf-tube-station-evacuated-police-yelling-quickly-people-seen-sprinting-away.html)

    3. Generic-Name237 on

      Ffs. If this turns out to be a terrorist attack, shit is going to seriously hit the fan big time.

    4. > A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We were called at 12.50pm today (6 August) to reports of a person fallen from height at Canary Wharf Underground Station, Bank Street, E14.

      Seems like a weird thing to evacuate a station over, seems like a suicide attempt.

    5. My office overlooks the entrance to the tube and there are no emergency services there now.

      Only saw one person get put into an ambulance.

    6. NegotiationNext9159 on

      If this media reaction and comment sections like this are going to be the norm for any minor incident at the moment I vote we just turn the internet off for a few weeks.

    7. The station was also evacuated a few weeks ago (you could hear the announcements when Jubilee line train I was on slowly skipped the station).

    8. High-Tom-Titty on

      I was at Angel when someone went under a train, if I didn’t see it happen I would have assumed it was something like an attack because of the alarms and announcements.

    9. EatShitRedditAdmin on

      I was taking lunch break when the incident happened and police were cordoning off the Jubillee line entrances. Went up to ask one of the officers and said the same thing with it being a severe incident with a passenger. Shortly after the police told people to give space and a guy was carried off on a stretcher to an ambulance unconscious and wired with medical devices 

    10. OpenWideBlue on

      From what I hear there was a single, innocent, unarmed woman who the police desperately wanted to attack so they needed to evacuate witnesses from the station.

    11. ash_ninetyone on

      Have to ask: if it was a falling accident, why would they need to evacuate the entire station?

      Or is it simply for space?

      I know tube stations are busy. Some aren’t the most spacious of things to move through crowds.

      I am just curious

    12. “Get out as fast as you can” doesn’t seem like the appropriate thing to say in a train station when there’s a call because “One man fell from height.”

      Bet most of those people thought they were in a terrorist attack. It’s lucky it didn’t cause a panic.

    13. Someone fell off the top of the escalator and onto the platform (according to my colleague who was there when it happened).