General Election 2019: Voters wade through water in south east London after water main bursts

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Voters in south-east London were forced to wade through water to get to their polling station on election day after a burst water water main caused flooding in the road around it.


Video footage posted on Twitter showed one voter in Bermondsey ankle deep in water as they made their way to vote.


Hannah Tookey, who waded through the water to cast her vote, tweeted: “It was too deep to wade through the middle, even in wellies.”


She added that there was flooding "all the way down the street".

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