{"id":366050,"date":"2018-06-20T05:26:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T04:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/london-tube-station-explosion-several-people-injured-after-blast\/"},"modified":"2018-06-20T05:26:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T04:26:49","slug":"london-tube-station-explosion-several-people-injured-after-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/london-tube-station-explosion-several-people-injured-after-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"London Tube Station Explosion \u2013 Several People Injured After Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>An explosion triggered an evacuation at London\u2019s Southgate tube station on Tuesday evening, police said, adding that a number of people received minor injuries. The cause of the blast is being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a small number of people were treated at the scene.\u00a0Emergency services\u00a0arrived at the station just after\u00a07pm following reports of a\u00a0small explosion. Local reports suggest that one person was taken out of the station on a stretcher.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Enfield?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Enfield<\/a> <br \/>BREAKING: Southgate Underground Station has been evacuated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BTP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BTP<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/metpoliceuk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@metpoliceuk<\/a> due to a suspicious package. The whole of Southgate High Street <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/N14?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#N14<\/a> has been closed to the public. BTP explosive\/bomb detector sniffer dogs are also on scene. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VHG6azvv71\">pic.twitter.com\/VHG6azvv71<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 London 999 Feed (@999London) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/999London\/status\/1009150566008803328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>People in the area were warned to stay indoors and the road outside the station has been cordoned off. Pictures on social media showed police sniffer dogs outside the station. One local told the Evening Standard newspaper that he witnessed \u201caround 50 or 60 police, an ambulance, fire arms and dog units\u201d at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A police statement confirmed that officers remain at the Southgate station and enquiries are \u201congoing\u201d to established the cause of the reported minor explosion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not aware of any serious injury,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>VIDEO: Several emergency services now on scene following minor explosion at Southgate Tube station <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uK7kanka0o\">pic.twitter.com\/uK7kanka0o<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 News This Second&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/london-tube-station-explosion\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion triggered an evacuation at London\u2019s Southgate tube station on Tuesday evening, police said, adding that a number of people received minor injuries. The cause of the blast is being investigated. Police said a small number of people were treated at the scene.\u00a0Emergency services\u00a0arrived at the station just after\u00a07pm following reports of a\u00a0small explosion. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-366050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}