Liverpool Street station incident: Man fighting for life

The incident was reported to police shortly after 6pm <i>(Image: Google Maps)</i>
The incident was reported to police shortly after 6pm (Image: Google Maps)
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A man is fighting for his life after falling in a busy London train station.

The British Transport Police was alerted to the accident at Liverpool Street railway station shortly after 6pm on November 24.

Officers were dispatched alongside the London Ambulance Service, with a trauma team from London's Air Ambulance also in attendance.

At the scene, a man was found injured and was taken to hospital with life threatening injuries.

It is understood that the man fell in the station.

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A spokesperson for LAS said: “We were called at 5.58pm yesterday (November 24) to reports of a person who had fallen in Liverpool Street Station, EC2M.

“We sent an ambulance crew, a paramedic in a fast response car and an incident response officer to the scene. We also dispatched a trauma team in a car from London’s Air Ambulance.

“We treated a patient at the scene and took him to a major trauma centre.”

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