Passengers flee in panic as man stabs himself to death on Tube platform

A MAN stabbed himself to death in front of horrified commuters at a London Tube station yesterday.

- Paul Jeeves

Passengers were seen fleeing from Sloane Square station in a panic, with one terrified woman shouting: "Run! Run! Run!" A huge police presence was seen at the station following the shocking incident in the morning.

British Transport Police confirmed reports of an unnamed man suffering "serious, self-inflicted injuries" and said he died at the scene.

An image from the station showed a man on the ground on a platform with a knife discarded nearby and two stunned commuters looking on in horror.