r 5th man gunned down on subway
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Updated: 11:21 a.m. ET July 22, 2005
LONDON - Hours after chasing down and shooting to death one man on the subway, British police on Friday released photographs of four others suspected of launching Thursday's wave of terrorist attacks on London's transport system. Officials said the attacks bore definite similarities to the fatal bombings on July 7.
The police photographs showed one man wearing a dark shirt with "New York" across the front running through a subway station. Another was shown on the top of a double-decker bus, while the other two men were shown at separate subway stations.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair told a news conference in central London that his force was facing its "greatest operational challenge ever" and that anti-terrorism officers were working around the clock.
Blair was speaking hours after plainclothes police chased a man through a south London subway station, wrestled him to the floor and shot him to death.
The man shot in the subway was "directly linked" to continuing antiterrorist operations, Blair said.
Passengers said the man, described as South Asian, raised suspicion wearing a winter coat in the heat of summer. Most said he wore a backpack, according to Reuters, reminding many of images of the four suicide bombers behind both the July 7 and Thursday's attacks.
Witnesses said he ran onto a train at Stockwell station, police chased him, he tripped, and police then shot him.
"They pushed him onto the floor and unloaded five shots into him. He's dead," witness Mark Whitby told the British Broadcasting Corp. "He looked like a cornered fox. He looked petrified."
Another witness spoke of the scene just outside the station.
"I was about to go in when I saw a lot of people coming out. They looked shocked. There was a bit of panic. The guy I spoke to said, 'I've just seen someone shot'," said Andrew Wajnowski, 18, a part-time kitchen boy.
"I saw three people shoot at an Asian guy who was wearing a rucksack," he quoted the other witness as saying
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