Police shoot suspected suicide bomber in London

Police forensics officers enter Stockwell Underground train station after a suspected suicide bomber was shot dead by police. Picture / Reuters

LONDON - London police said a police officer had shot a man at the Stockwell underground train station but declined to comment on reports he was a suspected suicide bomber.

"I saw them (police) offload five shots into the person on the floor," eyewitness Mark Whitby at the station told BBC television. "I saw them kill a man."

Police would not give any further details.

Meanwhile, armed police surrounded a mosque in east London and told residents to stay indoors, a resident told BBC Five Live radio.

Reuters cited police sources as saying the alert at the mosque was caused by a bomb threat, but the incident was now over.

Police were hunting for bombers after an apparently failed bid on Thursday to bomb London's transport network.

On July 7, 56 people were killed in bombings on the underground and bus network, including four bombers.

- REUTERS