A SUNNY DAY IN CITY.. THEN SCREAMS AS GUN POLICE SWOOP ON CAFE PAIR; PICTURE EXCLUSIVE.Byline: By RICHARD SMITH THIS was the moment yesterday when two men were seized in the aftermath of the Exeter cafe bomb explosion. Dozens of armed police poured out of 10 vehicles and pounced on the pair while they were sitting in sunshine outside Le Jardins de Bagatelles in Plymouth. A child in a pushchair was with them. Within seconds the men, both in their 30s, were surrounded and ordered to lie on the ground, Screaming shoppers fled as police trained HK5 sub machine guns on the men's heads in Plymouth's Drake Circus Drake Circus is a shopping centre in the centre of Plymouth, England. It is a 49,200 m² (530,000 ft²) covered scheme which opened in October 2006. It includes such retailers as, Next, Primark, Waterstone's, Virgin Megastore, Spudulike, Burger King and Schuh and abuts an enlarged shopping centre. One man was handcuffed. The other was led away with a taser gun pointed at his chest. The child in the pushchair was taken to a police station. Witness Ryan Simms, 27, a chef, said: "Everyone was diving for cover. People were running for their lives. It was like that Hollywood movie Die Hard. It was nuts." Rebecca Pope Rebecca Pope (a.k.a Ava) is the name of a fictional character from the third season of the ABC television series Grey's Anatomy. The character is portrayed by actress Elizabeth Reaser. Character History Dr. , 25, added: "I saw two dark-skinned men sat with a baby in a pushchair when the police suddenly arrived and got the first man up. "They started searching him and lifting his shirt and telling him to keep still. They put his hands in bags. When they pulled his jumper up I could see the red spot from the laser sights on his chest. "At some point he had produced his passport and put it on the table. I could see it was burgundy coloured so it looked like a British one. People were screaming. It was very frightening." Paul Marples, 31, said: "Ten or more armed police surrounded the cafe. One of the men who had been at the table was stood up and I could see a policeman pointing a weapon directly at him and shouting orders. "Everyone was running away and panicking because they thought they might be caught up in another nail bomb attack." Police later confirmed one man had been arrested in connection with Thursday's bomb blast and the other was being questioned. CAPTION(S): DRAMA Armed police train their guns on the two men as they sit in the sunshine outside the cafe in Plymouth Picture: ADAM Adam, the first man, in the Bible Adam (ăd`əm), [Heb.,=man], in the Bible, the first man. In the Book of Genesis, God creates humankind in his image as a species of male and female, giving them dominion over other life. SORENSON; HELD One of the men is handcuffed by an officer; TENSE A policeman points a Taser stun gun stun gun, hand-held electronic device that produces a high-voltage pulse that can immobilize a person for several minutes with no permanent damage in most cases. as one of the men stands with arms outstretched out·stretch tr.v. out·stretched, out·stretch·ing, out·stretch·es To stretch out; extend. outstretched Adjective ; SURROUNDED One man stands up as police close in 3.27PM PLYMOUTH YESTERDAY |
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