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Explosies: Londense politie schiet vermoedelijke terrorist neer



LONDEN 22/07 (DPA) = De politie heeft vrijdag in de Londense metro
volgens een ooggetuige een vluchtende man neergeschoten. Volgens de
televisiezender Sky News ging het vermoedelijk om een
zelfmoordterrorist, die een bom wilde laten ontploffen.


En ooggetuige zei op de BBC dat hij had plaatsgenomen in een
wachtende metrotrein in het station Stockwell, toen plots een man de
trein was binnengestormd, achternagezeten door politieagenten. De
agenten wierpen zich op hem. Een agent in burger haalde zijn revolver
boven en doodde de vermoedelijke terrorist met vijf kogels.


De politie bevestigde voorlopig enkel dat ze op een man in het
metrostation heeft geschoten.


De passagiers van de metrotrein werden geevacueerd en de omgeving
van het station werd afgesloten.


Het station van Stockwell ligt op de noordelijke lijn, op een halte
van het station van Oval, waar donderdag een van de mislukte aanslagen
plaatsvond./. LRT(LME)
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221227 JUL 05_


BBC
Last Updated: Friday, 22 July, 2005, 10:42 GMT 11:42 UK
Man shot by armed police on Tube
A man has been shot at Stockwell Tube station by armed police officers.
Passenger Mark Whitby told BBC News he had seen a man of Asian appearance shot five times by "plain-clothes police officers" with a handgun.
Passengers were evacuated from the Northern Line station in south London. Police have also cordoned off surrounding streets.
A mosque in east London has been evacuated after a bomb scare - but a police cordon has now been lifted.
Police are hunting four would-be bombers after Thursday's London blasts.
The bombers fled after detonators went off, causing small blasts, but failed to detonate the bombs themselves.
Services on the Victoria and Northern lines have been suspended following a request by the police, London Underground said.
Ambulances including an air ambulance have been sent to the scene at Stockwell.
Mr Whitby, told BBC News: "I was sitting on the train reading my paper.
"I heard a load of noise, people saying, 'Get out, get down'!
"I saw an Asian guy run onto the train hotly pursued by three plain-clothes police officers.
"One of them was carrying a black handgun - it looked like an automatic - they pushed him to the floor, bundled on top of him and unloaded five shots into him.
"I saw the gun being fired five times into the guy - he's dead."
Passenger Briony Coetsee said: "We were on the Tube and then we suddenly heard someone say, 'Get out, get out' and then we heard gunshots."
Passenger Alison Bowditch told BBC News: "The tube pulled into the station and we were sitting there, you know, as you do and then there was just a lot of shouting and the sound of gunfire and then people were saying, 'Get off, get off!'
"Somebody definitely went to the ground and as they went to the ground I heard gun fire and assumed they had been shot."

Sky News
'SUICIDE BOMBER' SHOT
Police have killed a suspected suicide bomber at a Tube station in south London.

Armed officers opened fire up to six times on the suspect as he hurdled a ticket barrier and raced along a platform at Stockwell station.
Police screamed at passengers to evacuate and are thought to have shot the suspect as he stumbled on to a train.
Alarmed onlookers said they saw up to 10 plain-clothed officers chasing an Asian-looking man before opening fire.
Passenger Briony Coetsee said: "We were on the tube and then we suddenly heard someone say 'get out, get out' and then we heard gunshots."

Unconfirmed reports suggest the man was involved in Thursday's assault on the capital.
If the suspect is proved to be a suicide bomber, it would mark the fifth attempted terrorist attack on London in less than a day.
Stockwell Tube alert
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "We can confirm that just after 10am armed officers shot a male at Stockwell Underground station.
"A man was challenged by officers and subsequently shot. London Ambulance Service attended the scene. He was pronounced dead at the scene."

Police are believed to be under orders to shoot to kill if they believe someone is about to detonate a bomb.
Sky News Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said: "The officer or officers involved in this clearly felt this suspect was about to detonate a bomb."
Tube services on the Victoria and Northern lines were suspended at the request of police.
An earlier bomb threat targeting a mosque in east London has been given the all-clear by police.
Last Updated: 11:57 UK, Friday July 22, 2005