- Chaos on the London Underground after explosion on a packed commuter train
- Tube services currently suspended between Edgware Road and Wimbledon
- Parsons Green station in west London closed with public urged to avoid area
There is chaos on the London Underground after an explosion on a packed commuter train this morning.
Transport for London said Tube services are suspended between Edgware Road and Wimbledon.
Parsons Green station in west London remains closed with members of the public being urged to avoid area after a device exploded on the rush hour train.
Police have confirmed they are treating it as a terror-related incident.
Flames engulfed one carriage and raced along a train on a west London route to Parsons Green, forcing passengers to trample others as they rushed for an exit
Witnesses say people ran from the scene with ‘blood on their face’
Horrified witnesses on social media claim there was a stampede as people were ‘screaming and running off trains’
There was a stampede as a ‘fireball flew down the carriage’, leaving several passengers with serious facial burns on the packed rush hour train in Parsons Green, west London at 8.20am.
The doors opened on the District Line train and the commuters, many of them with scorched faces and hair, ran off screaming.
Transport for London said it is ‘investigating an incident at Parsons Green’ and urged customers travelling between Wimbledon and Earls Court to use alternative routes.
There is no service from Earls Court to Wimbledon and Ealing Broadway to Turnham Green eastbound, according to TfL.
Passengers ran onto the rail tracks to get away from the train as a fireball engulfed the carriage
Armed Police, paramedics and firefighters were all said to be at the west London station within five minutes of the explosion
A photograph of the flaming white bucket taken just after it exploded around 8.20am shows a number of wires protruding out of the top and on to the train carriage floor
The incident is ongoing, said police at the scene as police helicopters hover ahead where the suspect is thought to still be on the loose.
Counter terror police confirmed this morning the incident at Parson’s Green is being treated as a terror attack.
At the scene dozens of police and ambulances have continued to be called into the cordoned area. It is not known at this stage how many people are injured.
A police officer told MailOnline: ‘We believe there is a second bomb, people need to stay back there is a man with knives on the loose.’