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"Police acknowledged on Saturday that a man they shot dead in a London underground station on Friday was unconnected to bomb attacks on the city the previous day, calling the shooting tragic and regrettable.

"For somebody to lose their life in such circumstances is a tragedy and one that the Metropolitan Police Service regrets."

Police hunting four men who tried to bomb London's transport system on Thursday -- two weeks after suicide bombers killed 52 commuters -- chased and fatally shot the man who had been under surveillance and refused orders to halt.

The killing at point-blank range with five shots to the head in front of shocked passengers on a packed underground train triggered speculation of a radical change of tactics by traditionally unarmed police.

"He was then followed by surveillance officers to the underground station. His clothing and behaviour added to their suspicions," the statement said.

"To give licence to people to shoot to kill just like that, on the basis of suspicion, is very frightening," Azzam Tamimi of the Muslim Association of Britain told BBC television.

"It is human lives that are being targeted here, whether by terrorists or in this case unfortunately by people who are supposed to be chasing or catching the terrorists." (source)