London’s Old Street station in lockdown after body found

London’s Old Street Tube station is in lockdown after police found a body on the tracks in the early hours of this morning.

A spokeswoman for British Transport Police said: ‘We were called to Old Street underground at 1.27 this morning to reports a body had been found.

‘The death is currently being treated as unexplained. We have closed the station while investigations continue.’

The tragic discovery caused travel chaos on a large chunk of the Northern Line with services affected between Kennington and Camden Town via Bank.

Old Street station itself was closed throughout Saturday morning but services were expected to return to normal by the early afternoon.

National Rail added: ‘The police are attending to an incident at Old Street on the London Underground station, and have closed the station for a short while.

‘Network Rail and Great Northern are working with the Police to reopen the station as quickly as possible.

‘Whilst this incident is ongoing, services are not stopping at Old Street. Great Northern are sorry for the problems this disruption will cause you.’

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Source: London’s Old Street station in lockdown after body found | Daily Mail Online