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UK security chiefs have ordered an acceleration in police training to prepare for any future "Mumbai-style" gun attack in a public place.
A series of counter-terrorism exercises are being held with police marksmen training alongside units of the SAS.
Police armed response units are also being given more powerful weapons.
The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner said there was no indication that such an attack was imminent in the UK.
Last month intelligence sources said they had uncovered the early stages of an al-Qaeda plot to carry out co-ordinated attacks in the UK, France and Germany.
Suspects were planning to copy the 2008 attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai, where 10 gunmen went on a three-day rampage, killing 166 people and injuring more than 300, the sources said.
Our correspondent said the UK authorities had been planning for such an attack ever since Mumbai happened.
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I won't be going to the olympics. if I had a guess on which is most likely to be hit first. I'd say France.
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