This is true. See below. London Evening Standard (early)
Police have shot a man dead at Stockwell underground station in south London, Scotland Yard confirmed.
Scotland Yard said: "We can confirm that just after 10am armed officers entered Stockwell Tube station. A man was challenged by officers and subsequently shot.
"London Ambulance Service attended the scene. He was pronounced dead at the scene."
There have been unconfirmed reports that police believe the man who was shot was one of the attackers involved in yesterday's attempted explosions in the capital.
Police also have another man in custody who is believed to have been connected with yesterday's attempted bombing.
Witness Mark Whitby said the man was shot five times at close range after he had jumped on a train. The train was standing in the station with its doors open when the Asian man ran on, pursued by three plainclothes officers.
He tripped and was also pushed to the floor and one of the officers shot him five times. Mr Whitby said the Asian man was dead.
"I'm totally distraught," he said. "It was no more than five yards away from where I was sitting as I saw it with my own eyes."
He continued: "As the man got on the train I looked at his face. He looked from left to right, but he basically looked like a cornered rabbit, like a cornered fox. He looked absolutely petrified.
"He sort of tripped but they were hotly pursuing him and couldn't have been more than two or three feet behind him at this time.
"He half-tripped, was half-pushed to the floor. 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.
"He looked like a Pakistani but he had a baseball cap on, and quite a thickish coat. It was a coat like you would wear in winter, a sort of padded jacket.
"Maybe he might have had something concealed under there, I don't know. But it looked out of place in the weather we've been having. He was quite large, big built, quite a sort of chubby guy."
Passenger Briony Coetsee, 23, said: "We were on the Tube when we suddenly heard someone say 'get out, get out' and then we heard gunshots - someone was shooting.
"Somebody in plain clothes who I thought was a civilian cop had his gun out and started shooting and told us to get out."
A large area around Stockwell Tube Station, an interchange for the Northern and Victoria lines in south London, was cordoned off and traffic approaching the area ground to a halt.
Chris Wells, a 28-year-old company manager, said he was travelling on the Victoria Line towards Vauxhall when he left the train at Stockwell.
He saw about 20 police officers, some of them armed, rushing into the station before a man jumped over the barriers with police giving chase.
He said: "There were at least 20 of them (officers) and they were carrying big black guns.
"The next thing I saw was this guy jump over the barriers and the police officers were chasing after him and everyone was just shouting 'get out, get out"'.
Tube services on Victoria and Northern lines have been suspended following a request by the police, London Underground said.
This is true. See below. London Evening Standard (early)
Police have shot a man dead at Stockwell underground station in south London, Scotland Yard confirmed.
Scotland Yard said: "We can confirm that just after 10am armed officers entered Stockwell Tube station. A man was challenged by officers and subsequently shot.
"London Ambulance Service attended the scene. He was pronounced dead at the scene."
There have been unconfirmed reports that police believe the man who was shot was one of the attackers involved in yesterday's attempted explosions in the capital.
Police also have another man in custody who is believed to have been connected with yesterday's attempted bombing.
Witness Mark Whitby said the man was shot five times at close range after he had jumped on a train. The train was standing in the station with its doors open when the Asian man ran on, pursued by three plainclothes officers.
He tripped and was also pushed to the floor and one of the officers shot him five times. Mr Whitby said the Asian man was dead.
"I'm totally distraught," he said. "It was no more than five yards away from where I was sitting as I saw it with my own eyes."
He continued: "As the man got on the train I looked at his face. He looked from left to right, but he basically looked like a cornered rabbit, like a cornered fox. He looked absolutely petrified.
"He sort of tripped but they were hotly pursuing him and couldn't have been more than two or three feet behind him at this time.
"He half-tripped, was half-pushed to the floor. 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.
"He looked like a Pakistani but he had a baseball cap on, and quite a thickish coat. It was a coat like you would wear in winter, a sort of padded jacket.
"Maybe he might have had something concealed under there, I don't know. But it looked out of place in the weather we've been having. He was quite large, big built, quite a sort of chubby guy."
Passenger Briony Coetsee, 23, said: "We were on the Tube when we suddenly heard someone say 'get out, get out' and then we heard gunshots - someone was shooting.
"Somebody in plain clothes who I thought was a civilian cop had his gun out and started shooting and told us to get out."
A large area around Stockwell Tube Station, an interchange for the Northern and Victoria lines in south London, was cordoned off and traffic approaching the area ground to a halt.
Chris Wells, a 28-year-old company manager, said he was travelling on the Victoria Line towards Vauxhall when he left the train at Stockwell.
He saw about 20 police officers, some of them armed, rushing into the station before a man jumped over the barriers with police giving chase.
He said: "There were at least 20 of them (officers) and they were carrying big black guns.
"The next thing I saw was this guy jump over the barriers and the police officers were chasing after him and everyone was just shouting 'get out, get out"'.
Tube services on Victoria and Northern lines have been suspended following a request by the police, London Underground said.