27/06/2007

Police shoot man in Wales

A man is in critical condition after he was shot by an armed officer in Ebbw Vale, south Wales.

Negotiators and armed police had been investigating a report that an armed man was in a semi-detached house in the Rassau area.

One shot was fired by an officer at around 11:10pm wounding a 56 year old man in the stomach.

The Independent Police Commission are investigating the incident.

Gwent Police said that reports that an armed man was in a house were being investigated and that the man was in a critical condition following the shooting.

Neighbours said that the man had recently lost his mother and that his partner had died a little over a year ago.

(SP/JM)

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