07.24.2005, 11:17 AM
SAO PAULO (AFX) : Brazil demanded an explanation for why one of its nationals was shot dead on a London underground railway train by British police probing bomb attacks in the city.
'The Brazilian government is shocked and perplexed to learn that a Brazilian citizen was killed (Friday) ... in London by police, apparently the victim of a lamentable error,' the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
'The government awaits the explanation British authorities must supply about the circumstances which led to this tragedy.'
London police, which at first said the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was linked to its probe of Thursday's failed attacks in London's public transportation system, later said he was not connected to the case after all.
