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07-10-2009, 02:49 PM
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Police chase gunman on the Underground
Bo Wilson and Justin Davenport
07.10.09 Armed police chased a gunman through a packed central London Tube station in dramatic scenes in front of shocked commuters.
Officers swooped on Tottenham Court Road station during the early rush hour yesterday afternoon, halting the Central Line as they chased the suspect, before arresting the man.
Witnesses described dramatic scenes as the police leapt over road barriers and dashed through the crowds at the station.
One said an officer ran into the ticket hall and demanded to be taken to the CCTV monitoring room to track him.
The drama happened at about 4.15pm, when shoppers and workers were flocking into the station.
A member of the public called police to say they had seen a man armed with a handgun at the station.
The trains at the station were halted and officers used CCTV to watch the 26-year-old man while armed police raced to the scene.
The man was arrested by officers as he tried to leave the station. The handgun turned out to be a gas-powered pellet gun.
Photographer Ghene Snowdon, who captured the moment the arrest was made, said: “I was inside the station and a policeman ran in, breathless, and asked the man and the gate where he could watch CCTV.
“As I went out onto Oxford Street I saw red police cars all coming up with their sirens blaring. Heavily armed police jumped over the fence at the corner and dashed in.
“People were still coming out of the Tube station but no one was being allowed in. I asked what was going on and they said it was an emergency.
“Then the police came out with a man in handcuffs. Crowds of people were staring and a tourist asked me if it was another bomb.”
A Met spokesman said; “We were called at 4.15 to reports of a male seen with a handgun.
“A 26-year-old man has been arrested and is in custody at a central London police station.”
The arrest happened just over an hour after a separate incident involving a handgun happened in West Hampstead.
At 3pm yesterday a car was stopped near West Hampstead station and a man was arrested.
A second man pulled out a gun and ran off. Officers chased him and he ran across the live rails to try to get away.
The second man was subsequently arrested.
The incident is the second in just a few days when unarmed police officers have tackled criminals armed with handguns.
On Saturday two officers on motorcycles were shot at by a man armed with a handgun riding a bicycle.
A police constable confronted the gunman in a garden in Hackney but backed away when the man pointed the gun at the officer's head. The gunman is still on the run.
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Police chase gunman on the Underground
Bo Wilson and Justin Davenport
07.10.09 Armed police chased a gunman through a packed central London Tube station in dramatic scenes in front of shocked commuters.
Officers swooped on Tottenham Court Road station during the early rush hour yesterday afternoon, halting the Central Line as they chased the suspect, before arresting the man.
Witnesses described dramatic scenes as the police leapt over road barriers and dashed through the crowds at the station.
One said an officer ran into the ticket hall and demanded to be taken to the CCTV monitoring room to track him.
The drama happened at about 4.15pm, when shoppers and workers were flocking into the station.
A member of the public called police to say they had seen a man armed with a handgun at the station.
The trains at the station were halted and officers used CCTV to watch the 26-year-old man while armed police raced to the scene.
The man was arrested by officers as he tried to leave the station. The handgun turned out to be a gas-powered pellet gun.
Photographer Ghene Snowdon, who captured the moment the arrest was made, said: “I was inside the station and a policeman ran in, breathless, and asked the man and the gate where he could watch CCTV.
“As I went out onto Oxford Street I saw red police cars all coming up with their sirens blaring. Heavily armed police jumped over the fence at the corner and dashed in.
“People were still coming out of the Tube station but no one was being allowed in. I asked what was going on and they said it was an emergency.
“Then the police came out with a man in handcuffs. Crowds of people were staring and a tourist asked me if it was another bomb.”
A Met spokesman said; “We were called at 4.15 to reports of a male seen with a handgun.
“A 26-year-old man has been arrested and is in custody at a central London police station.”
The arrest happened just over an hour after a separate incident involving a handgun happened in West Hampstead.
At 3pm yesterday a car was stopped near West Hampstead station and a man was arrested.
A second man pulled out a gun and ran off. Officers chased him and he ran across the live rails to try to get away.
The second man was subsequently arrested.
The incident is the second in just a few days when unarmed police officers have tackled criminals armed with handguns.
On Saturday two officers on motorcycles were shot at by a man armed with a handgun riding a bicycle.
A police constable confronted the gunman in a garden in Hackney but backed away when the man pointed the gun at the officer's head. The gunman is still on the run.