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 an explosion on a packed rush-hour commuter train.

Here are live updates on the incident:

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 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