UPDATE: The man wanted for threatening passengers on the Northern line at Tooting Broadway station remains at large, the Metropolitian Police has said.

Tooting Broadway station was hit by a security scare and online panic after armed police descended on the station.

Wimbledon Times:

Their arrival sparked fears of something serious coming in the wake of the Paris attacks.

But the Met said it was a search for a man with scissors.

A spokesman from Met Police said: "This is an incident regarding a man who is believed to be making threats and carrying scissors."


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Armed police were originally reported to have evacuated the northern line as far as South Wimbledon.

But a spokesman for Transport for London said police stopped the train, searched for a person with a knife but could not find him and left.

They said no trains had been evacuated and the line had not been stopped.

A witness at the scene at 1.50pm said people were filing in and out of the station as normal.

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