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| M62 shooting: Man shot dead by police named locally as Mohammed Yassar Yaqub | |
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| A man who was shot dead by police during a "pre-planned operation" in West Yorkshire has been named locally as Mohammed Yassar Yaqub. | |
| West Yorkshire Police said a total of five people were arrested as part of the operation. | West Yorkshire Police said a total of five people were arrested as part of the operation. |
| Three were arrested at the scene of the shooting, and another two were arrested in Bradford. | Three were arrested at the scene of the shooting, and another two were arrested in Bradford. |
| At the scene on the M62, a silver Audi with bullet holes in its windscreen was surrounded by other vehicles at the bottom of the off-slip of the westbound carriageway. | |
| Photographs of the scene show three bullet holes visible through the car's front windscreen. | |
| Police said the operation was not terror-related and that a car had also been stopped in the Chain Bar area of Bradford at around the same time. | |
| Several of those arrested needed hospital treatment for injuries "not related to firearm discharge" but no police officers were hurt, a force spokesman said. | |
| The Independent Police Complaints Commission has been informed as a matter of course, and the force says it is “fully co-operating” with the watchdog's investigation. | |
| The eastbound carriageway of the M62 is open at junction 24 but all other sliproads remain closed while the investigation continues. | |
| A police spokesman said: "During a pre-planned policing operation near to the M62 in Huddersfield a police firearm was discharged and a man has died. | |
| "An immediate referral has been made to the Independent Police Complaints Commission who are in attendance in West Yorkshire and West Yorkshire Police are fully co-operating with their investigation." | |
| The incident is the fifth fatal police shooting in England and Wales in the past nine months and the first involving West Yorkshire Police since 2010. |