PhotoLONDON — A report of gunfire led to the panicked evacuation of one of London’s most crowded subway stations on Friday afternoon, but the scare proved to be short-lived, a testament perhaps to nerves frayed by a year in which London has been targeted by several terrorist attacks. Shopping bags littered the sidewalk, and one woman was seen running down the street wearing just one shoe. Mattias Nilsson, 45, said he was in town with friends for a Premier League soccer match and was near the station when he heard people shouting, “Shooting! Everyone started running,” he said. “This is making me nervous.”Caroline Rigby, a 33-year-old journalist, said in an exchange of electronic messages that she was on Carnaby Street, near Oxford Street, “when a wave of hundreds of people started running towards me screaming and panicking.”

Source: New York Times November 24, 2017 17:45 UTC