A major hospital in central London has been evacuated after a chemical incident this morning.
Around 150 people have been evacuated from Guy’s Hospital, opposite London Bridge railway station in Southwark.
Photographs posted to social media showed dozens of people packed along St Thomas Street as firefighters led patients out of the building.
Fire crews are ventilating the hospital after patients and staff were removed from the basement and ground floor.
The fire brigade said: ‘The brigade was first called about the incident at 8.49am, with crews from Whitechapel, Dowgate, Euston and surrounding fire stations sent to the scene.’
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