Commuter dies ‘after plunging several yards from an escalator’ inside Canary Wharf station
A commuter has died after ‘falling from the escalators’ at Canary Wharf station in London.
An air ambulance and police officers were rushed to the station in the capital’s
A British Transport Police spokesman said: ‘Officers were called to Canary Wharf London Underground station at 3pm today after reports of a person falling from the escalators.
‘Colleagues from the London Ambulance Service also attended, however, a person was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.
‘Officers are working to inform their family. This incident is not currently being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner.’
The station was closed for just over an hour but re-opened at 4.15pm.
Police have not yet revealed the gender or age of the person while they work to identify them and inform their family.
‘There are a lot of paramedics tending to a man at the end of the eastbound platform,’ one person said, and another added that a colleague was ‘in tears on this floor’.
One woman described feeling ill after seeing ‘all that blood at Canary Wharf’