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| Casualties feared in RAF Tain 'live-firing' incident | Casualties feared in RAF Tain 'live-firing' incident |
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| Police have sealed off the RAF Tain bombing range, 30 miles north of Inverness, after an incident during a "live-firing" training exercise. | |
| Unconfirmed reports suggest one person has died and another is injured. Police said they were called to the defence facility at about 17:55 GMT. | Unconfirmed reports suggest one person has died and another is injured. Police said they were called to the defence facility at about 17:55 GMT. |
| Officers were still at the scene several hours later. | |
| An army spokeswoman confirmed that defence officials were dealing with an incident. | An army spokeswoman confirmed that defence officials were dealing with an incident. |
| She said: "We are aware of an incident at the Tain base, near Inverness. | She said: "We are aware of an incident at the Tain base, near Inverness. |
| "We will release more information as and when it becomes available. It would be inappropriate for us to comment further at this point." | "We will release more information as and when it becomes available. It would be inappropriate for us to comment further at this point." |
| RAF Tain is a long established, large air weapons range on the Dornoch Firth, about three miles east of the town of Tain. | |
| It is used for the majority of the time by the RAF, in particular Tornado and Typhoon fast jets that operate out of RAF Lossiemouth in Moray. | |
| US Air Force and Nato air crews also use the range, flying low as the RAF aircraft do, to attack targets on the site, large parts of which are saltmarsh. | |
| Civilian contractors work with military personnel in managing the range's control tower, targets and clearing ordnance clearance. |