The bodies of three men in their 20s were found outside Loughborough Junction station in south London this morning.
The incident is thought to have happened at around 5am, but British Transport Police were not called to the scene until the morning rush hour at 7.30am, after a driver saw bodies on the tracks while operating an early morning service, The Guardian reports.
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