Canning Town Tube station evacuated after female commuter gets trapped between train and the platform

A BUSY London tube station was evacuated this morning after a woman got her foot trapped between a train and the platform.
Canning Town station was closed as emergency services rushed to free the woman from the gap.
Witnesses described hearing "horrific screaming" during the "absolutely horrendous" incident just after 8am this morning.

Canning Town station was closed as emergency services rushed to free the woman from the gap @najeebster / Twitter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commuter Georgia Louise Riley wrote on Twitter: "I heard lots of screaming and she shouted something about being in a lot of pain.
"I didn't see but somebody said if the tube moved, her leg would have just gone. She sounded like she was in so much pain."
Jo Stone added: "I'm not gonna be able 2 get that sound out my head 2day.
"Really hope they'll b ok. Late for work, But that's minor to what they going through."
Marcio Delgado added: "How many times people have to hear 'mind the gap' to actually mind it? Woman trapped her feet in Canning Town today."
Transport for London confirmed services have resumed, but with severe delays.
 
A TfL spokesman said a woman got her foot caught between a train and the platform around 8.20am.
He said: "Canning Town was closed this morning at around 8.45am due to a passenger getting their foot caught between the train and the platform. As a result, the Jubilee line was also suspended between Stratford and North Greenwich during this time.
"Our staff were present, along with all emergency services, to help the passenger and resolve the situation as safely as possible."
The spokesman said the woman was freed at around 9.05am and added: "We needed to get the train up so we could get her foot out from underneath.
"We managed to get the train up using a jack and released the woman."


A London Ambulance Service spokesman said: “We were called at 8.30am this morning to reports of a person under a train at Canning Town Station.
“We sent a number of resources including an ambulance crew, an incident response officer, an advanced paramedic, and our hazardous area response team to the scene. The first of our medics arrived within six minutes.
“Our paramedics treated a woman at the scene for a minor leg injury but she was not taken to hospital”.
A British Transport Police spokesman said: "We were called to Canning Town London Underground station at 8.28am on Thursday, May 26, to reports of a woman with her foot stuck between a train and the platform.
“Colleagues from London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade also attended, and the woman was helped onto the platform.
“The woman did not suffer any serious injuries and the incident is not being treated as suspicious."
There are severe delays across the Jubilee line as a result of the incident this morning, although the station re-opened shortly after 9am.
Canning Town is one of the stations on the Jubilee line that does not have safety doors, but since the incident people have been calling for them to be installed.

The woman had to be freed from the gap with a jack after she became trapped @CarolinaSF09

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