London Underground blast LIVE: Police call incident terrorism, ‘device didn’t fully detonate’

British police said on Friday they were treating as a “terrorist incident” reports of a blast at a west London metro station.

Armed police rushed to reports of a fire on a train at a London underground station with local media reporting there had been an explosion on a packed rush-hour commuter train.

Here are live updates on the incident:

3.52pm: The device did not fully detonate, Sky News cites unnamed sources as saying.

3.43pm: “If you see anything suspicious just ACT, contact police,” says UK terrorism police.

3.40pm: Footage filmed from the platform through the train door as people were evacuated shows flames licking from the bucket, which is inside a plastic shopping bag. “That bag’s on fire,” a woman exclaims, before a London Underground staff member orders commuters to get away from the carriage to the end of the platform.

3.38pm: Chris Wildish says he saw “a massive flash of flames” that reached up to the ceiling of the train and then the air was filled with the smell of chemicals. Wildish told Sky News that many of the passengers were schoolchildren, who were knocked around by people trying to get away from the fire.

3.35pm: This is the fifth terrorism incident of 2017 in the UK, according to the BBC. This attack is the only one this year in which nobody has died. Thirty-six people were killed in the four previous attacks.

3.30pm: Britain’s official threat level from terrorism stands at “severe,” the second-highest rung on a five-point scale, meaning an attack is highly likely.

3.22pm: Second unexploded device identified at the site and is now being tackled, TV reports quote a spokesperson of the London Metropolitan Police as saying.

3.20pm: A man injured in the Parsons Green tube explosion describes the incident:

"It was quite scary" - Peter's head was burnt in the Parsons Green tube explosion https://t.co/slQLKviOeB pic.twitter.com/oYvbyqgUs3

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) September 15, 2017

3.14pm: London mayor Sadiq Khan’s statement on his Facebook page:

The Metropolitan Police have confirmed that the explosion on a train at Parsons Green Station this morning is being treated as terrorism.

Our city utterly condemns the hideous individuals who attempt to use terror to harm us and destroy our way of life.

3.14pm: Police say it’s “too early to confirm the cause of the fire, which will be subject to the investigation that is now underway by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command.”

3.12pm: British PM Theresa May says “thoughts are with those injured at parsons green and the emergency services who, once again, are responding swiftly and bravely to a suspected terrorist incident”. May says will chair a meeting of national security committee later on Friday after incident at west London tube station

2.48pm: London train incident being treated as ‘terrorism’, say police.

2.06pm: Eye witness at west London’s Parsons Green tube station says was on train when he heard a whoosh and saw next door carriage engulfed in flames

1.48pm: UK police say they are investigating reports of blast on London underground train

1.37pm: Witness says injured in stampede at London’s Parsons Green Underground station: Reuters reporter

1.26pm: No service between Earls Court and Wimbledon on London Underground District line: Transport for London on Twitter

1.18pm: UK’s Sun newspaper says reports of an explosion on London underground train in west London