UK Police: Man Killed Unrelated to Probe
July 23, 2005
LONDON – The man shot and killed on a subway car by London police officers before horrified commuters had nothing to do with the investigation into a series of bombings against the city’s transit system, police said Saturday.
The man, whose identity has not been released, was shot Friday at a subway station in the south London neighborhood of Stockwell.
A spokesman for Scotland Yard said on customary condition of anonymity that “the man was unconnected to the incidents of Thursday,” in which bombs placed on three subway cars and a double-decker bus failed to detonate properly.
The spokesman also said the man was “probably unconnected” to the July 7 subway and bus bombings that killed 56 people, including four attackers.