Man ‘decapitated after sticking head out of train window’

A passenger has reportedly been decapitated after he stuck his head out of a moving train.

The man, aged in his twenties, was travelling on the Gatwick Express this afternoon and died instantly during the incident at Wandsworth Common station just after 5.30pm.

Another train coming in the opposite direction is believed to have struck him.

A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: ‘We were called to reports of a man hit by a train with severe head injuries.

‘Sadly he was pronounced dead at the scene by doctors.’

The train had been on its way to Victoria station in London.