London chemical incident: Vomiting patients hospitalised as street put on lockdown

VOMITING homeowners were rushed to hospital during a chemical incident in south London.

Alwold Crescent, in Lee, just off the South Circular Road, was placed in blockade after emergency services were headed into the residential street amid concerns about a chemical reaction.

Paramedics rushed several people to the hospital after witnesses said a number of locals suffered a bad reaction to an unknown substance Sunday morning.

Taxi driver Ian Crouch, 39, told The Sun: "I was able to see emergency services outside my home.

"When I spoke with a police officer, he said that there were people complaining of irritation, who had been vomiting all morning.
They have been taken to the hospital.

"He said they were investigating whether it is related to terror, but he told us not to panic.

"It sounds like we can be evacuated from our homes.

"They think it comes from the sewer system."
The paramedics of the London Fire Brigade (LFB) tweeted a photo of several fire trucks, ambulances and police cars on the scene.

They said: "We are on the scene in a chemical incident in SE12 with @LondonFire and @metpoliceuk."

A spokeswoman for LFB said Express.co.uk: "We were called to a chemical smell.

"Firefighters swept the area for high chemical levels.

"We put in place a exclusion zone of 25 meters.
A spokesman for the London Ambulance Service said: "We were called just after 11.05 and we sent two ambulance crews, one officer and members of our dangerous response team.

"Our staff reviewed nine people on the scene, two were taken to the hospital."

The United Kingdom is on high alert following the terrorist attack in Parsons Green, west of London, on Friday morning.

A huge manhunt is underway after a device in a cube exploded at a rush hour train from the District's pipe line, injuring 29 people.

The level of terrorism was raised to "critical" - which means an attack is imminent -, but Sunday afternoon was reduced back to "serious", which means an attack is very likely.

Two men have been arrested, including an 18-year-old boy in Dover on Friday and a 21-year-old boy in Hounslow on Sunday morning.

Police raided a house in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey and made an incursion today in Stanwell, Surrey in connection with Hounslow's arrest.