In angular2 does enter key trigger any click event on the page?

In the code below removeSelectedCountry() should be called when the span element is clicked and handleKeyDown($event) should be called when there is a keydown event on the div.

@Component({
    selector: "wng-country-picker",
    template: `
    <ul class="CountryPicker-selected" *ngIf="selectedCountries.length > 0">
    <li *ngFor="let country of selectedCountries">
        <span class="Pill Pill--primary" (click)="removeSelectedCountry(country)">
        {{ country.name }}
        </span>
    </li>
    </ul> 
    <div (keydown)="handleKeyDown($event)" class="CountryPicker-input"></div>
`,
providers: [CUSTOM_VALUE_ACCESSOR]
})

But removeSelectedCountry() is called every time enter key is pressed.

To make the code work I had to change the click event to mousedown event. It works fine now.

Can anyone explain why enter key would trigger click event?

@Component({
    selector: "wng-country-picker",
    template: `
    <ul class="CountryPicker-selected" *ngIf="selectedCountries.length > 0">
    <li *ngFor="let country of selectedCountries">
        <span class="Pill Pill--primary" (mousedown)="removeSelectedCountry(country)">
        {{ country.name }}
        </span>
    </li>
    </ul> 
    <div (keydown)="handleKeyDown($event)" class="CountryPicker-input"></div>
`,
providers: [CUSTOM_VALUE_ACCESSOR]
})