Two police officers were taken to hospital after they were allegedly attacked at a railway station.

Staff from the British Transport Police (BTP) were called to the railway, in Tunbridge Wells, at around 5.35pm yesterday evening (December 27) as a man who was wanted for an assault had turned up.

When the officers stopped him, at the station in Mount Pleasant Road, one was allegedly “punched and bitten” while the other was “strangled”, a spokesman for BTP said.

Both were taken to the hospital for tests and CT scans where they are doing well and have been offered support.

Officers from Kent Police have since arrested a man.

The original call started in Battle, East Sussex, where it is said the suspect had assaulted a member of the public, and his partner and caused damage to a bus shelter.

During this incident, an officer from Sussex Police was also attacked and the man ran away.

Detectives from BTP are investigating and are looking at CCTV from both Battle and Tunbridge Wells.

A spokesman said: “A man was arrested on suspicion of three counts of assault against an emergency worker, assault, and criminal damage. He remains in police custody."

Update: Oliver Hills appeared at Sevenoaks Magistrates Court on December 29 charged with intentional suffocation, assault of a person thereby occasioning actual bodily harm, and assault by beating of an emergency worker.

The 19-year-old, from Eastway, Hackney has been released on police bail and is next due to appear at Maidstone Crown Court on January 26.