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| Oxford Circus incident - as it happened: Police say no evidence of gunshots or attack in central London | |
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| A major police incident has come to a close after police found no evidence of gunshots or injuries. | |
| After numerous reports suggested that there had been gunshots at Oxford Circus station, police said they were responding to the event as if it was a terror attack. But they found no evidence of any shots or attack, and apparently the many 999 calls were baseless. | |
| The reports triggered panic on one of the world's busiest shopping streets, leading people to flee into restaurants and shops on the instruction of the police. | |
| It came in the middle of Black Friday, when the street and station may have been even more busy than usual. | It came in the middle of Black Friday, when the street and station may have been even more busy than usual. |
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