Toddler dies of heart attack at train station in front of horrified commuters who battled to save his life

SIMON HARRIS ITV LONDON CORRESPONDENT

A three year-old-boy has died of heart attack in front of horrified commuters at a busy London railway station.

London Bridge Station Credit: PA

Passengers and paramedics tried desperately to revive the toddler after he collapsed at London Bridge station.

One eyewitness described hearing the boy's parent screaming before a tannoy announcement appealing for a nurse or doctor to go to Platform 5.

London Bridge Station Credit: PA

Further efforts were made to resuscitate the boy in an ambulance but doctors at St Thomas's Hospital were unable to save him.

We were called just before 9.15pm to reports of a child in cardiac arrest at London Bridge train station. We sent an ambulance crew, a paramedic on a motorbike, an advanced paramedic and a duty manager to the scene. The first of our medics arrived within three minutes of the call coming into our control room. CPR was already being carried out by passer-by’s on arrival. Our medics made every effort to resuscitate the patient both at the scene and on the way to hospital. He was taken as a priority to St Thomas’s.

– LONDON AMBULANCE SERVICE