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| London City Airport evacuated in 'chemical' scare | |
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| London City Airport has been evacuated in a suspected chemical incident which has left people needing treatment for breathing difficulties. | |
| London Fire Brigade (LFB) said about 500 people were forced to leave the east London airport after some passengers felt unwell. | London Fire Brigade (LFB) said about 500 people were forced to leave the east London airport after some passengers felt unwell. |
| Ambulance staff treated 26 patients on the site and the LFB sent appliances used to deal with chemical incidents. | |
| In a tweet, London Ambulance Service said two people had been hospitalised. | |
| A spokesman for the airport said the evacuation took place at about 16:00 BST after a fire alarm was set off. | A spokesman for the airport said the evacuation took place at about 16:00 BST after a fire alarm was set off. |
| Boxer David Haye who was at the airport en-route to Scotland tweeted: "Gutted cant get to Scotland for @JoshTaylorBoxer fight tonight. As #CityAirport got evacuated when everyone started coughing uncontrollably!" | |
| Chris Daly, 35, from Southend, told the BBC he had just landed from BA flight from Glasgow when he heard the fire alarms. | |
| "When we got into the airport terminal building we could hear the fire alarms going on, then there were announcements in three different languages saying this is a fire alarm and the crew were directing us at the baggage carousel to evacuate the building. | |
| "We are now all standing on the tarmac under the wing of the airplane because it has started to rain. | |
| "I can see some plane circling in the sky but nothing else has landed. No-one has really told us anything. We saw some fire crew going inside to do a sweep. | |
| "I saw something on Twitter about it being a possible chemical incident. I'm not particularly worried because we are outside now." | |
| Another passenger Shauna Bull said: "They are starting to take us inside now. | |
| "They've separated us into domestic and international and I thought we were going to get to go home but they've taken us into a room for border force control to process us. | |
| "There are buses now taking people on toilet trips to a toilet somewhere so I think we could be here for a while yet. No-one is saying anything. | |
| "I've told my dad, who I was supposed to be meeting, and he's sitting in a pub now telling his mates. | |
| "I'm not overly worried. I just hope they sort it out. I live in London so I'm used to this sort of thing." | |
| London Ambulance Service tweeted: "Ambulance crews and our Hazardous Area Response Team are attending the incident at London City Airport." | |
| Are you at London City Airport? Tell us your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk. | Are you at London City Airport? Tell us your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk. |
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