MONTE - MADEIRA - 2005
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Londres/Atentados:Scotland Yard confirma que matou homem no Metro Londres, 22 Jul (Lusa) - A polícia britânica confirmou hoje que agentes da Scotland Yard mataram hoje um homem na estação de Metro de Stockwell da linha Northern, no sul de Londres."Podemos confirmar que pouco depois das 10:00 (mesma hora em Lisboa), agentes armados entraram na estação de Stockwell", disse a Scotland Yard."Um homem foi interpelado e em seguida alvejado pelos agentes. O serviço de ambulâncias de Londres foi chamado ao local e declarou a morte do indivíduo", acrescentou o porta-voz da polícia metropolitana de Londres.O homem, descrito por algumas testemunhas como sendo asiático, foi visto a saltar uma barreira e a entrar numa composição do comboio estacionado em Stockwell da linha de Northern do Metro de Londres.O comboio estacionado em Stockwell foi imediatamente evacuado, enquanto a polícia mandava suspender a circulação nas linhas de Northern e de Victoria.A estação de Stockwell fica a uma estação da de Oval, onde quinta-feira foi registada uma das quatro explosões de fraca potência que ocorreram em Londres.Este incidente surge quando está lançada uma vasta operação de "caça ao homem" pelos serviços de segurança para encontrar os presumíveis autores das quatro explosões em três estações do Metro e num autocarro de dois andares registadas quinta-feira em Londres.Ao contrário dos atentados de 07 de Julho, dos quais resultaram 56 mortos e 700 feridos, os ataques de quinta-feira apenas provocaram um ferido ligeiro.Para a imprensa britânica, o objectivo dos ataques de quinta- feira em Londres foi conseguido: "Devolver o medo à cidade".Por seu turno, meios de comunicação social estrangeiros caracterizam os mesmos ataques como "atentados falhados", porque não causaram vítimas mortais.O primeiro-ministro britânico, Tony Blair, que hoje está na residência de campo de Chequers, está a ser informado do desenvolvimento dos acontecimentos, referiu o porta-voz oficial de Downing Street.Minutos depois deste incidente na linha Northern do Metro de Londres, polícias armados cercaram uma mesquita no leste de Londres e perto do centro financeiro da capital britânica, no bairro de Whitechapel, indicou uma testemunha à cadeia BBC News 24.Segundo a cadeia de televisão, o cerco foi rapidamente levantado por se ter confirmado que o alerta levantado sobre vários embrulhos suspeitos era falso.Anteriormente, um líder muçulmano tinha afirmado que a mesquita, uma das maiores de Londres, tinha sido evacuada na sequência de uma ameaça de bomba.A BBC referiu que as forças de segurança tinham pedido às pessoas que viviam perto da mesquita para não saírem de casa.MC.Man shot dead by police on Tube Police have cordoned off a 200-metre area around the station A man has been shot dead by police at Stockwell Tube station in south London, as officers hunt four bombing suspects. 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. BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said there were unconfirmed reports officers at the scene had said the man shot was the Oval bomb suspect. And armed police have cordoned off an area of Harrow Road in west London. BBC correspondent Graham Satchell, who is at the scene, said the focus of the large police presence appeared to be an internet cafe. As well as armed officers in body armour, there were about seven police vehicles and an ambulance, he said. People in the area were "nervous", he added. Station evacuated Police have cordoned off a 200-metre area around Stockwell station. The incident followed four attempted bombings in the capital on Thursday at Oval, Warren Street, Shepherd's Bush stations and on a bus in Shoreditch in east London. Passengers were evacuated from Stockwell station, which is on the Northern Line and Victoria Line. Teams of forensic officers are working inside the station, and police helicopters are hovering overhead. Services on the Victoria and Northern lines were suspended following a request by the police. 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. 'Bomb belt' "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 is dead," he said. BBC Home affairs correspondent Margaret Gilmore said officers had challenged a known suspect they had been following. "He ran, they followed him. They say they gave him a warning, they then shot him. "They brought in the air ambulance. They did everything they can to revive him. He died at the scene." Police had warned they would shoot to kill if they believed somebody to be a threat, she added. BBC crime correspondent Neil Bennett said the suspect was being followed as a result of CCTV footage seen by officers investigating Thursday's explosions.
Police have set up cordons round the stations Minor explosions using detonators only have sparked the evacuation of three Tube stations and the closure of three lines, a BBC correspondent has said. Police cordoned off large areas around Warren Street, Oval and Shepherd's Bush Tube stations. A route 26 bus in Hackney Road in Bethnal Green had its windows blown out by a blast. There were no injuries. Police in London say they are not treating the incidents as "a major incident yet". One person was injured at Warren Street, although the person's condition is unknown. The whole of the Northern Line has been suspended, along with the Victoria Line and the Hammersmith and City line. London Underground went to an amber alert with trains taken to the next station and evacuated. An eyewitness at Oval station said there had been a small bang, and a man had then run off when the Tube reached the station. A spokesman for Stagecoach said the driver of the number 26 bus travelling through Shoreditch had heard a bang on upper deck, gone upstairs and seen the windows were blown out. The bus driver was very shaken but said to be fine. At Shepherd's Bush station, police told reporters that a man had threatened to blow himself up and then ran off. Sosiane Mohellavi, 35, was travelling from Oxford Circus to Walthamstow when she was evacuated from a train at Warren Street. "I was in the carriage and we smelt smoke - it was like something was burning. "Everyone was panicked and people were screaming. We had to pull the alarm. I am still shaking." The BBC's Rory Barnett said there had been no smoke on the platform at Warren St. Liz Edwards, who works near Warren Street Underground station, said the area was full of activity. "There are police, fire engines and ambulances all around there. A guy from our office had just come back from the station and said the police were aggressively keeping people away from the station and that you could not get anywhere near it."
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