Tube passengers flee as 'shots fired at suspect'

Passengers were evacuated from a Tube train today after gun shots were fired.

There were unconfirmed reports that a suspected suicide bomber had been shot in the incident at Stockwell station – possibly one of the attackers involved in yesterday’s incidents.

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.

An ambulance and several police cars were also at the scene and sirens were heard blaring in every direction.