Armed police swoop in as two women taken away as Nottingham incident continues
Two young women were put into a marked police car as armed officers swooped in Nottingham today.
A unit brandishing large guns, with some wearing balaclavas, could be seen on Ilkeston Road - just a few hundred yards from the main cordon in the city centre.
It is the same street where two people were found dead just after 4am.
Police appeared to enter a commercial property on the street, with two females eventually put in the back of a marked car.
A number of unmarked police vehicles carrying armed officers also eventually then left after the section of the road was taped off.
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It comes as a 31-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
A third man was found dead in Magdala Road, Nottinghamshire Police said.
Another three people are in hospital after someone tried to run them over in a van in Milton Street, in what police believe is a connected incident.
Armed cops on the streets (Andy Stenning/Daily Mirror)Video captured by the Mirror shows armed officers in masks at the scene this morning.
One man, who did not give his name, said he heard "awful, blood-curdling screams" and looked out of his window to see a "black guy dressed all in black with a hood and rucksack grappling with some people".
The witness told the BBC he saw the double stabbing on Ilkeston Road, close to the junction with Bright Street, at around 4am.
He told the broadcaster: “She was screaming ‘Help!’ I just wish I’d shouted something out of the window to unnerve the assailant.
A map showing the different incidents (Daily Mirror)“I saw him stab the lad first and then the woman. It was repeated stabbing – four or five times. The lad collapsed in the middle of the road.
“The girl stumbled towards a house and didn’t move. The next minute she had disappeared down the side of a house, and that’s where they found her.
“I’d say it all happened within five or six minutes. The attacker then just walked off up Ilkeston Road towards town, as calm as anything.”
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The man said he called the police who arrived within five minutes, before paramedics tried to revive the pair for 40 minutes.
A white van behind a police cordon on the corner of Maples Street and Bentinck Road (PA)A resident on the same street said a policewoman was “banging on my door” at around 5am asking for any CCTV footage.
The man, who asked to only be known as Wayne, said he was told the incident happened around 4.10am before being asked if he had witnessed anything.
“I didn’t see or hear anything, but I’m not surprised this sort of thing has happened around here,” he added.
Other eyewitnesses described the moment they saw police detain a suspect in a different part of the city.
One witness who filmed the moment that appeared to show the arrest told GB News: "We woke up this morning at about 5.30am to what sounded like gunshots.
Armed officers on Ilkeston Road (Joseph Walshe / SWNS)"We ran to the window and there was armed police running out of what looked like an undercover car. And then the suspect was tasered and dragged out by them and then arrested.
“We didn’t actually see any gunshots but it certainly sounded like them and the glass was all smashed in the van.”
Meanwhile, Kane Brady, a student at the University of Nottingham, told the same news outlet he saw a knife being taken from a white van after a man was arrested outside his house on Maples Street.
Mr Brady said: “We woke up to shouts of "armed police" and what… sounded like some very loud noises, what sounded like gunshots – it was that loud.
An armed officer gets out of a police car (PA)“I looked out the bedroom window and saw Tasers. I saw a man being dragged out (of the van) and pinned to the floor.
“I saw him getting arrested, him trying to resist.
“I then later saw when they opened the van, I saw a large knife being pulled out and then straight away that’s when police closed off both roads, both Maples Street and Bentinck Road.”
Witness Lynn Haggitt told BBC News she was feeling “shaky” after describing what she saw elsewhere this morning.
Armed officers are patrolling across the city centre (PA)She described how a white van pulled up beside her at 5.30am on her way to work near the Theatre Royal: “He looked in his mirror, saw a police car behind him, he then quickened up, there were two people, two in the corner, he went straight into these two people.”
“The woman went on the kerb, the man went up in the air, there was such a bang, I wish I never saw it, it’s really shaken me up.
“I went over, perhaps I shouldn’t have gone over but I wanted to see if I could help.
“He (the van driver) backed up after he hit… and drove up Parliament Street.
An armed officer stands next to members of the public (Joseph Walshe / SWNS)“The woman was sitting up on the kerb, she looked OK. The man was laying down, but then he got up, sat on the side waiting for an ambulance,” Ms Haggitt said, adding “I can’t believe he was able to get up after the head wound”.
When asked if she thought the collision was deliberate, Ms Haggitt went on to tell Channel 4 News: “I don’t think I should say that, but to me he went straight into them, he didn’t even bother to turn, just went back straight into them.”
When asked if the people hit were hurt badly, she said that a man appeared to have a head injury.
“They did get him to his feet,” she added, but said of the woman who was hit: “She was sitting up on the curb, to me she looked OK”.
“I was there for 15 minutes and there was no ambulance. One of the policemen, I think, did first aid. He looked after a man on the floor.”
Chief Constable Kate Meynell said: “This is an horrific and tragic incident which has claimed the lives of three people.
“We believe these three incidents are all linked and we have a man in custody.
“This investigation is at its early stages and a team of detectives is working to establish exactly what has happened.
“We ask the public to be patient while inquiries continue. At this time, a number of roads in the city will remain closed as this investigation progresses.”
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