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A medical student has delivered his first baby — at a Tube station.

Hamzah Selim, 21, came to the aid of the woman after hearing her cries at Warren Street station yesterday afternoon.

The first-year UCL student told the Evening Standard how he saw the mother leaning against a wall by a Northern line platform.

After rushing over to her, he realised she was in the middle of giving birth.

“It was just instinct,” he said. “The whole experience was unbelievable. It was such a mad coincidence.”

Mr Selim was about to take the Tube home after an anatomy lecture at the nearby UCL campus when he heard the woman in distress.

He said the mother told him she had been on a shopping trip with her sister and had to take the Tube when she failed to flag down a taxi.

She realised she was going into labour in front of passengers shortly before 2pm, and she told him she had given birth to three other children.

Mr Selim told the Standard: “I heard one of them shout for help. There was this woman standing there, screaming for help.

“I went over to help because it looked like she was about to faint.

“I thought ‘Oh my goodness, they didn’t teach us how to do this — how to give birth on the Tube’.”

Mr Selim said his training from the time he spent working on a maternity ward kicked in.

“The mum did absolutely great given it was the first birth I was involved in outside the textbook,” he added

Paramedics came a few minutes after the boy was born and cut the umbilical cord, Mr Selim said.

The child was later taken to hospital by medics.

A Transport for London spokesman added: “We’d like to thank the staff at Warren Street station, who did a fantastic job in assisting the customer who gave birth.

“London Ambulance Service attended and both mother and child were taken to hospital."