Woman smashes glass on London Underground hitting passengers

This is the shocking moment a Christmas journey turned violent when a woman smashes a bottle on the London tube - sending glass flying towards passengers.

A fellow traveller captured the footage of the "scary" moment in the early hours of December 27 on the Central line near the Liverpool Street station in East London.

The woman, who was travelling with a group, was seen arguing with a group of male passengers and had to be restrained after the situation escalated.

The passenger who filmed the incident told The Mirror: "There was a lot of pushing, shoving and shouting. I think a drink had been thrown over one of the guys and the girl grabbed the bottle. She smashes it against the handrail and glass shattered everywhere. The whole bottle was sent flying.

"It was an absolutely insane thing to do. It could have been incredibly dangerous."

He added: "It was a violent situation. Someone could have been seriously hurt. Glass could have gone in someone's eye."

The man added that he stopped filming and "ran off" the tube when the groups spotted him filming.