ARMED officers are investigating after reports that shots were fired at a police patrol outside a busy railway station today.

ARMED officers are investigating after reports that shots were fired at a police patrol outside a busy railway station today.

One officer suffered a cut to his thigh in The Cut, outside Waterloo station in central London, shortly after 3pm.

But a Met spokesman said it was not yet known how he suffered the injury.

A London Ambulance Service spokesman said a second person was also taken to hospital. They also had minor injuries.