Passengers flee Tower Hill station after a battery pack explodes (Picture: Murtaza Ali Shah)

An explosion has been heard at a London Underground station causing mass panic among passengers.

Witnesses reported hearing a ‘small scale explosion’ in a bag at Tower Hill station this afternoon, triggering a ‘panic and stampede’.

The explosion took place on a District Line train heading to Ealing Broadway from east London and reportedly was due to a battery pack.

Update: First image from Tower Hill tube station incident with unidentified item 'hissing and smoking'. pic.twitter.com/duM7C6jACH — BREAKING.UK (@BreakingDotUK) September 26, 2017

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Murtaza Ali Shah, a reporter for Pakistan’s Geo News, was in the same carriage as the explosion.


He told Metro.co.uk: ‘There was panic all around, women and men were screaming, there was astampede for a brief moment in which passengers piled on each other.



‘Many thought there was a knife or bucket attack like the one on the Parsons Green tube.’

According to reports, around five people suffered minor injuries.

A spokesman for British Transport Police told Metro.co.uk: ‘We are currently on the scene alongside the London Fire Brigade, after responding to a fire alert on the District Line.

‘Officers remain at the scene and it is not yet clear if there are any injuries’.

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