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

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1. Source without paid cookie bullshit: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/london-canary-wharf-tube-station-33406113

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3. The article pretty much has as much info as the headline.

4. 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.

5. 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)

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

7. > 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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).

11. 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.

12. 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 

13. 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

14. Chances are that hey saw another Brazilian plumber on the tube.

15. It’s all starting to fall apart, this is getting scary

16. “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.

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

18. Phew that police officer is going to get a stern talking to about avoiding crowd crushes

19. “The incident is not being treated as suspicious”.

    “Get out as quick as you can”. This person should be fucking suspended. Causing unneeded panic especially in a time where the media is trying its hardest to do the same.

20. Seriously ?

    I was a witness of girl falling off the stairs, hitting her head badly, to a point when she passed away grinning with pain.

    My wife and a women from crowd, that luckily seemed to have some proper first aid experience, took care of the girl, and I ran as fast as possible two long escalators up to get someone from station staff to call an ambulance, because emergency phone from platform was broken. I got up there, almost spewing my lungs out, said to call an ambulance because there’s unconscious girl down on the platform level, and all I got was slow as snail guy saying “show me”. I ran back down, turned around and the guy was slowly going down standing on first escalator. Two minutes later he saw the girl and gladly acknowledged through the radio “get paramedics”.

    Never in my life I wanted to punch someone that bad for being obtuse and insensitive donut. And I don’t care that they have to check first before calling paramedics. Guy was clearly not interested.

    Anyway situation here is same thing, but instead of under reaction, there was over reaction. Hopefully those two are anecdotal situations and not usual Tuesday happenings.

21. I’ve seen more headlines about attack on police, one of them being ‘Police officer has laser pen shined in eye’ than I have about those children. I don’t condone this behaviour in the slightest but something needs to be done.