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From Sky News

POLICE SHOOT SUSPECTED SUICIDE BOMBER


Police have shot a suspected suicide bomber near a tube station in south London.

Marksmen opened fire near Stockwell Tube station as passengers were evacuated.

More to follow...

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1189920,00.html

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POLICE SHOOT SUSPECTED SUICIDE BOMBER

Police have shot a suspected suicide bomber near a tube station in south London.

Marksmen opened fire near Stockwell Tube station as passengers were evacuated. It was not clear what the suspect's injuries were.

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."

Sky News Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said: "There is no word on whether he has been killed or simply injured."

If the suspect is confirmed to be a suicide bomber, it would mark the fifth attempted terrorist attack on London in less than a day.

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Alarmed onlookers said they saw up to 10 plain-clothed officers chasing an Asian-looking man before opening fire.

This statement (from the linked article) concerns me, because now I have a mental picture of some unfortunate Chinese guy running desperately to try to catch the train, unable to understand the policemen's commands to stop. I really hope this is a PC misstatement, and that the man really looked Middle-Eastern, because I have a VERY hard time trying to conceive of a Chinese suicide bomber.

Three eyewitnesses were taken to a nearby veterinary surgery by police before being taken away for interview.

Taking people to a veterinarian for urgent care purposes says more about the quality of socialized medicine than I could say in a thousand words.