Victoria tube station evacuated due to 'emergency'
10 Sept 2017 9:56 PM IST
London: London's Victoria station has been evacuated after a passenger was fatally struck by a train on the northbound Victoria Line service.
A spokesperson for the British Transport Police (BTP) said the person was pronounced dead at the scene, but that the incident was being treated as non-suspicious.
Passengers were ordered by station staff to leave the premises just before 12pm on Sunday and take local buses instead.
Transport for London (TfL) told The Independent there had been a "passenger incident" and the station has been closed to allow emergency services to attend. A reporter from The Independent on the ground witnessed police pull up onto the pavement outside the station and run inside.
There were reportedly nine emergency vehicles — four police vans, a TfL response unit, three fire engines and a fire rescue van — on the scene, as well as a significant police presence. Police were heard saying 50 metres of track had been closed off in order to move a train to recover a body.
One passenger told The Independent they had been on the tube at Vauxhall when the driver announced that there was "a person under the train".
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