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Six Southeastern services are cancelled after bedbugs are reportedly spotted crawling between passenger seats AGAIN, but the operator denies it

Six Southeastern services are cancelled after bedbugs are reportedly spotted crawling between passenger seats AGAIN, but the operator denies it

The first sighting came at about 6.30am on Thursday, on a train out of Bexley's Slade Green Depot bound for London Charing Cross. An off-duty Kent Integrated Control Centre worker raised the alarm, and the train was pulled from service at Dartford. Photographs appear to show the parasites in the blue-and-black upholstery. Southeastern insists specialist contractors found no trace in passenger areas.

A Hastings driver separately reported 'three bed bugs on a poster near the door'.

Earlier this month bedbugs turned up in drivers' cabs, and drivers refused to board.

Union boss Maryam Eslamdoust said passengers 'should not have to worry about taking bedbugs home'.

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