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police shoot suicide bomber at Stockwell LT station (London)
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Police Shoot, Kill Suspect at London Subway Station
By Glenn Frankel and Fred Barbash
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, July 22, 2005; 7:24 AM
LONDON, July 22 -- London police shot and killed a man at the Stockwell subway station in south London Friday morning just a day after four small explosions shook the city's vast transportation system, injuring one person.
No reliable details as to the reasons were immediately available.
Witnesses said three or four armed plainclothes officers were pursuing the man at the station, which is just one stop from the Oval station where a bombing occurred Thursday.
Witnesses told BBC radio that they heard police shout "'get down. Get down.' "
The man "half-tripped as he ran," and was on the floor of a waiting train just as shots rang out.
"We can confirm that just after 10 a.m. armed officers entered Stockwell Tube station," said a police statement. "A man was challenged by officers and subsequently shot. London Ambulance Service attended the scene. He was pronounced dead at the scene," police said.
One British news outlet said police killed an attempted suicide bomber. Another said they were pursuing an individual in connection with Thursday's bombings in London.
Neither report was confirmed.
A witness told BBC radio that "there was a lot of shouting and then gunfire" at the station at about 10 a.m. local time (5 a.m. EDT) The man shot was described as wearing a baseball cap and a coat. Several witnesses on the radio said he was Asian.
Service has been suspended on the Underground in the area.
The incident comes a day after an attack on the London transport system Thursday.
The Stockwell station is a junction stop South of the River Thames on the Victoria Line and the Northern Line on London's Underground system.
Four small explosions shut down the city's public transit system at lunchtime Thursday and sent panicked passengers fleeing for safety in an echo of the deadly suicide strikes of two weeks ago. Police reported one injury.
"The policeman nearest to me had the black automatic pistol in his left hand, he held it down to the guy and unloaded five shots into him."