Police rules out terror in exodus at Oxford Street Staffer held with cocaine at Heathrow

■ Fight between 2 men triggered evacuation

The incident at the busy Oxford Circus area here on Saturday that sparked a “mass evacuation” and left 16 people injured was caused by an “altercation” between two men, police said, ruling out a terror attack.

The Oxford Circus area, one of the busiest shopping zones in the heart of the city, was placed under temporary lockdown after police received reports of shots being fired.

However, Scotland Yard later released CCTV images, saying an altercation between two men led to the chaos in the area.

“We are releasing CCTV images of two men we would like to speak with, following the incident at Oxford Circus earlier on Saturday,” the Metropolitan Police said. The British Transport Police ( BTP) said the altercation took place inside the busy Oxford Circus underground train station, “triggering a mass evacuation”. “Officers believe an altercation erupted between two men on the platform. They would now like to speak to these two people in the CCTV images, London: British officials say a Heathrow Airport security worker has been arrested in an airport toilet after seven kilograms of cocaine was seized.

The National Crime Agency said Saturday the 30- year- old man, from London, was arrested Thursday with a 37- year- old Colombian man in a lavatory in Terminal 5 at Heathrow. Officials say the Colombian man had just arrived on a flight from the Colombian capital Bogota.

Another man was arrested in the arrivals airport and a fourth man was arrested at a London residential address. who they believe may have information about the incident and the circumstances around the incident,” a BTP statement said.

“They would also like to speak to anyone who was at the station or in the area at the time and saw or heard anything that would have caused mass evacuation,” it added.