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An individual has died after being hit by a bus outdoors Victoria station in central London.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed the pedestrian was killed simply after 9am when a bus smashed into them outdoors Victoria Bus Station.
Photographs of a crimson double-decker bus that had crashed into passenger shelter have been shared on social media this morning, alongside photos of a number of patrol automobiles and hearth engines seen on the web site simply after 9.15am.
A number of Metropolitan police models have been in attendance together with officers from British Transport Police and the London Ambulance Service. Regardless of their finest efforts, the pedestrian was pronounced lifeless at 9.26am.
The entrance of the station has been cordoned off and specialist police site visitors investigators are on scene and an investigation into the circumstances of the collision has commenced.
The bus station stays closed however there are not any different highway closures in place, and the rail station stays unaffected, the Met stated.
The incident comes two years after a feminine pedestrian was killed outdoors the identical station when two buses crashed into one another.
Police and emergency service crews encompass a bus that crashed right into a pedestrian outdoors London Victoria Bus Station
The bus (pictured) crashed into the pedestrian outdoors Victoria Bus Station this morning
A number of police automobiles and hearth engines could possibly be seen on the web site shortly after 9.15am this morning outdoors London Victoria station
Police construct a makeshift cordon across the scene as London’s mayor Sadiq Khan confirmed that the station had been closed ‘for the foreseeable future’
Melissa Burr, 32, from Rainham in Kent, was killed outdoors Victoria Railway Station in August 2021.
Ms Burr died whereas two others have been handled in hospital and a fourth was checked on the scene.
London’s mayor Sadiq Khan known as in the present day’s crash an ‘terrible tragedy’.
‘Our ideas and prayers are with this pedestrian who has been killed in the present day,’ he stated.
