Arrest in Stockwell

Residents in a block of flats in Carroun Road, in Lambeth, South London, close to Stockwell station, said armed police had stormed onto the estate at around 4.30pm this afternoon. A man was led away from the scene in a plastic boiler suit after police had raided an address on the top floor of the flats, which also border Dorset Road.

One resident, 42 year-old Adil Abdulla, said: "we heard some shouting and there were police with guns saying ’get inside’, they were saying ’get down, get down’.

"The man said ’I’m doing it’ and the police said to him ’if you don’t do it, you are going to get shot’." Mr Abdulla, who lives on the balcony below the address that was raided, said that armed police had filled the streets during the raid and were even facing the address from the top of a block of flats opposite.

Stockwell shooting

Amanda Penn was on her way to work this morning from South London, travelling north on the Victoria line when her train pulled into Stockwell station only moments after police shot dead a suspected suicide bomber on the neighbouring Northern line platform.

After getting off the Tube at Pimlico station the 28-year-old research she told Times Online: "We pulled into Stockwell, I was on the train from Brixton, on the Victoria Line, and as we pulled into the station we saw everyone running alongside the train and out of the station. People were banging on the windows.

"When the train stopped I think we all thought there had been a bomb, so everyone's instinct was to get off, but then everyone on the platform shouted 'Get in the train, get in the train!' So people got on and some of them said they had heard gunshots. One woman with two children, she was middle-aged, said she had heard gunshots.

"People were panicking and someone dropped a duffel bag on the platform and I thought, 'Holy f***, there's another bomb'.

"Then as we pulled out, someone on the train had the initiative to duck, I mean, we didn't know what was going on. So we all crouched down, some in their seats, but most of us just crouched down on the floor."

Mark Whitby, speaking to BBC News 24, reported the man was shot five times at close range after he had jumped on a train.

Mr Whitby said he was sitting on the Tube train reading his paper as it was stationary with its doors open in Stockwell station.

He said he heard people shouting "get down, get down!"

He said: "An Asian guy ran on to the train. As he ran, he was hotly pursued by what I knew to be three plainclothes police officers."

He tripped and was also pushed to the floor and one of the officers shot him five times.

"One of the police officers was holding a black automatic pistol in his left hand. They held it down to him and unloaded five shots into him. I saw it. He’s dead, five shots, he’s dead."

He reported the man did not seem to be carrying a weapon or wearing a rucksack.

"Somebody in plain clothes who I thought was a civilian cop had his gun out and started shooting and told us to get out."

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"’.

Christopher Scaglione, 35, a fashion designer, was also on a Victoria Line tube train shortly before the incident. He told PA: "The train didn’t stop at Vauxhall and so I got out at Stockwell.

"I was just on my way out when I heard at first a little bang, not like a bomb more like a gun, and then people were shouting.

"People then started to run and I heard two or three more bangs like people shooting."

Chris Martin said he was waiting on the northbound Northern line platform at Stockwell station and a train had pulled in when several men burst on to the platform about 20 yards from him. "There was a lot of shouting, I thought it was football fans or something," he said.

"There was obviously some sort of altercation going on, and then they came flying on to the platform and these guys just threw this man into the open doors of the train. "Then I heard shots, I thought it was three but someone else said five.

"It sounded like a silencer gun going off, and then there was blind panic, with people shouting and screaming and just running away.

"I didn’t actually see the gun, but I heard this ‘bang, bang, bang’.

"When I left the station a guy called Mark who had been on the train said they had shot the man dead, no doubt about it."

Christine Burgess, a 56-year-old accountant, said the apparent shooting was the second security alert she had been caught up in this morning.

She said: "I was on a Tube train at Kennington when we were told to get off and we saw a suspicious person with a bag taken away from the carriage I was in. "After leaving the station, I decided to get on the 155 bus to try and get home and we had just got to Stockwell when we stopped.

"I was looking out of the window on the right-hand side and another driver from a different bus came on to ours and said police had just shot a suicide bomber in Stockwell station. "I was still looking out of the window and saw them bring out the black zip-up bag and that must have been the person involved because nobody else was hurt. I saw it taken into the ambulance."

She added that, despite her chaotic morning, she still felt calm and composed and able to travel on public transport.

She said: "I’m not a highly-strung person, I am fairly calm, but I am confident that the police and security forces are doing an excellent job."

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