27 April 2024 , 18:50
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London’s King Cross station has been evacuated because of a fire alert.
Passengers said they were ‘feeling dizzy from fumes’ as they were rushed out of the train station by firefighters shortly before 4pm today.
Witnesses report ‘a strong smell of gas and smoke’ coming from the building, and the nearby underground station has also been closed.
One passenger wrote on Twitter at around 4pm: ‘Currently at King’s Cross, London as they evacuated and shut the underground station. I’m seeing hella fire trucks pull up.’
Kings cross station emergency evacuation, the seemed to be some fume, made me extremely dizzy pic.twitter.com/FbbBhYd8Sm
— بابای کیان (@ashahri85) April 27, 2024
Evacuation from Kings Cross, could smells smoke through the walkways coming up from the Victoria line. #tfl #kingscross pic.twitter.com/3FRXYPEGqQ
— Nick VW (@nickvw7) April 27, 2024
Video footage of the scene shows passengers covering their nose and mouth as they rush our of the station.
A police officer at the scene told The Sun: ‘Someone has set off a flare in the underground and we’ve had to shut down the area.
‘Firefighters are down there now.
‘We don’t know when we’ll open the underground again.’
A TFL spokesperson said: ‘King’s Cross St. Pancras station is closed while we respond to a fire alert.’
The station was later confirmed to have reopened at around 5pm.